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Published inAug 2023
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Magnus Larsson
Magnus Larsson
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Magnus Larsson

Magnus Larsson, an IT industry veteran since 1986, has consulted for major Swedish firms like Volvo, Ericsson, and AstraZeneca. Despite past struggles with distributed systems, today's open-source tools like Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio offer effective solutions. For the past eight years, Magnus has been helping customers use these tools and shared insights through presentations and blog posts.
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In this chapter, you will be introduced to the concept of a service mesh and see how its capabilities can be used to handle challenges in a system landscape of microservices, in areas including security, policy enforcement, resilience, and traffic management. A service mesh can also be used to provide observability, the capability to visualize how traffic flows between microservices.A service mesh overlaps partly with the capabilities of Spring Cloud and Kubernetes that we learned about earlier in this book. But most of the functionality in a service mesh complements Spring Cloud and Kubernetes, as we will see in this chapter.The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • An introduction to the service mesh concept and Istio, a popular open source implementation
  • Deploying Istio in Kubernetes
  • Creating, observing, and securing a service mesh
  • Ensuring that a service mesh is resilient
  • Performing zero-downtime updates...
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Magnus Larsson

Magnus Larsson, an IT industry veteran since 1986, has consulted for major Swedish firms like Volvo, Ericsson, and AstraZeneca. Despite past struggles with distributed systems, today's open-source tools like Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio offer effective solutions. For the past eight years, Magnus has been helping customers use these tools and shared insights through presentations and blog posts.
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