What is a service mesh?

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A dedicated application-services infrastructure providing secure communication, authN, and authZ — 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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A single load balancer that just distributes the incoming requests across the backend servers

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A message queue that buffers the events passed between two decoupled microservices

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A monitoring dashboard that charts the request latency across the whole of the cluster

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