If you’ve done any reading about service meshes, you’ve probably come across mentions of an open-source project named Envoy. And if you’ve done any reading about Envoy, you’ve probably seen references to service meshes. How are these two technologies related? How are they different? Do they work together? I’ll attempt to answer all those questions in this blog post’s first and second parts, plus possibly a few more.
What Is a Service Mesh?
As companies are increasingly re-architecting their applications and embracing a microservices-based approach, the need for solutions to traffic management, observability, security, and reliability features increases. A service mesh is one approach to adding these features to the underlying platform instead of individual applications or services.