DevSecOps · Flashcard
What is a service mesh?
- AA dedicated application-services infrastructure providing secure communication, authN, and authZ
- BA single load balancer that just distributes the incoming requests across the backend servers
- CA message queue that buffers the events passed between two decoupled microservices
- DA monitoring dashboard that charts the request latency across the whole of the cluster
Why this is the answer
A service mesh is a dedicated application-services infrastructure providing secure communication, authentication, and authorization for users, services, and devices — not just a load balancer, a message queue, or a dashboard.
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