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whowhenhow
whowhenhow

Reputation: 119

Why do we need a service mesh on Kubernetes?

Major features of service meshes are

  1. Service Discovery
  2. Configuration management

both of them are provided by Kubernetes.
Why do we need a service mesh then?

*I understand that for more complex tasks e.g. zoning, security, complex load balancing and routing a service mesh is the right tool.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 706

Answers (1)

Howie S. Nguyen
Howie S. Nguyen

Reputation: 50

In short, applying a service mesh, for example Istio help establish and manage communication between services (microservices) easier especially when you have a large number of services, and also provide security and other features. But if you had just couple of services, you might not need it for example.

Upvotes: 1

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