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Cloud Service Mesh simplifies the management and security of microservices in a
distributed environment. It provides a way to connect, secure, and
monitor services across multiple clusters and platforms, including
GKE on AWS clusters.
One of the main reasons to use Cloud Service Mesh is to ensure secure
communication between microservices. In a microservices architecture, services
often communicate with each other across different clusters and cloud
providers. Cloud Service Mesh uses the Istio service mesh framework to secure
these interactions. It enables features such as traffic
encryption and access control policies, ensuring that only authorized
services can communicate with each other. This helps to mitigate security
risks and protect sensitive data in transit.
Another benefit of Cloud Service Mesh is its ability to provide observability
into the behavior of microservices. It integrates with Cloud Monitoring and
Cloud Logging, to collect
metrics, logs, and traces from services. This allows developers and operators
to monitor the health and performance of their applications. This visibility
is important for identifying and troubleshooting issues, optimizing resource
utilization, and ensuring the overall reliability of the system. Additionally,
Cloud Service Mesh provides traffic management capabilities, such as load
balancing, and traffic splitting. This enables teams to
implement advanced deployment strategies and perform controlled rollouts of
new features or updates.
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