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Service mesh solutions are revolutionizing modern application development and management, being essential for organizations seeking to scale, secure, and optimize their microservices architecture.

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Our Service Mesh Solutions To Support You

We are able to provide you with comprehensive services regarding service mesh and microservices to integrate and enhance your application network, overcome challenges, meet deadlines, and exceed expectations. This includes:

What Is Service mesh?

A service mesh works as a dedicated infrastructure layer built to facilitate communication between microservices within a distributed application. Unlike monolithic architectures, microservices divide applications into smaller, loosely coupled services that work together to provide the overall struc-ture and functionality.

Streamlining microservice development

Microservices offer independent development, deployment, and scalability for each service, enabling agility and flexibility in application development. This modular approach facilitates the introduction of new features or updates without disrupting the entire system.

Service to service communication

As microservices increase, managing their communication, traffic, security, and observability becomes challenging. A service mesh simplifies this by providing a centralized framework, abstracting networking complexities for developers to focus on business logic.

Enhancing connectivity and resilience

A service mesh functionality ensures fast, resilient microservice connections through advanced traffic management capabilities like load balancing, circuit breaking, and automatic retries.

Security and observability

A service mesh benefits security and observability in microservices through robust authentication, encryption, and comprehensive monitoring features like metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.

Service mesh – why could it be a soluton for you?

Reliable connectivity enhancement

Improve connectivity, ensuring fast and reliable connections between microservices. With features like circuit breaking and retries, service mesh guarantees swift and dependable connections, mitigating downtime and latency challenges commonly encountered in distributed architectures.

Robust security measures

Service mesh integrates security protocols like authentication and encryption to fortify the security stance of microservices-based applications. By enforcing identity verification and securing communication channels, service mesh shields sensitive data, mitigating potential security breaches.

Insightful performance analysis

Gain valuable insights into the behavior and performance of their distributed applications with comprehensive performance monitoring and analysis capabilities, facilitating real-time insights into the behavior and performance of distributed applications.

Microservice communication management

Effectively manage the complexities of microservice communication. Through solutions such as service discovery and load balancing, service mesh simplifies communication pathways, ensuring interactions across microservices.

Key features

Key features of our microservices and service mesh offerings

Our microservices and service mesh implementations come packed with powerful features for modern application development.

Microservices architecture and service mesh implementation

Crafting applications within the microservices framework involves meticulous design, development, and deployment strategies tailored to this architecture. Enhancing this approach, service mesh technology is implemented to oversee communication, traffic and security among microservices. We utilize popular service mesh frameworks like Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy to optimize the management and functionality of microservices-based applications, ensuring scalability within contemporary cloud-native environments.

Scalability, resiliency, and service discovery

Ensuring application’s capability to handle varying workloads and failures within distributed environments. This is complemented by the implementation of service mesh discovery mechanisms, facilitating dynamic location and communication with microservices. By integrating these practices, organizations can build adaptable systems capable of smooth managing fluctuations in demand and maintaining consistent performance levels across distributed architectures.

Traffic management and load balancing

Utilizing microservices architecture entails designing, developing, and deploying applications in adherence to this architectural style. This approach is complemented by the implementation of service mesh technology, which effectively manages communication, traffic, security, and observability between microservices. Leveraging renowned service mesh frameworks enhances the orchestration and governance of microservices-based applications.

Security and authentication

By implementing security protocols, we ensure to safeguard sensitive data, mitigate unauthorized access, and uphold compliance standards within their microservices environments. With our comprehensive approach to security, your applications are protected and the integrity of your system is maintained in today’s dynamic threat landscape.

Monitoring, logging, and observability

Through advanced monitoring, logging, and request tracing features, we can allow you to track performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot issues within your microservices ecosystem. Our integrated approach enables real-time insights into system health, user behavior, and security incidents, ensuring seamless operation and scalability for cloud-native applications.

Integration with DevOps and CI/CD

Integration of microservices and service mesh offerings with DevOps practices and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Our expertise

Service mesh tools we work with

Open source solutions like Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy that are flexible, versatile, cost-effective, and come with community support.

Managed tools such as AWS App Mesh by Amazon Web Services or Azure Service Fabric Mesh from Microsoft Azure that offer fully managed service mesh solutions within specific cloud provider ecosystems.

Commercial tools including NGINX Service Mesh and HashiCorp Consul that provide additional features and tailored support for enterprise needs.

Solo.io, a service mesh provider offering both open-source projects like Gloo Mesh and commercial solutions such as Gloo Mesh Enterprise and Gloo Edge Enterprise.

How we implement Service Mesh infrastructure

Implementing a service mesh infrastructure involves several steps to ensure a successful deployment. By considering these aspects and leveraging the appropriate tools we can help you successfully design, implement, and manage microservices architectures while harnessing the benefits of service mesh technology.

Assessment & framework selection

We evaluate your application architecture and select the most suitable service mesh framework based on your requirements and ecosystem.

Deployment planning & control plane setup

After devising a deployment plan, we establish the control plane components of the chosen framework.

Policy definition & proxy injection

We define policies for traffic management, security, and observability, and inject sidecar proxies to enforce these policies.

Monitoring setup & testing

We implement monitoring and observability tools to gain insights into your service mesh infrastructure and conduct comprehensive testing to ensure functionality.

Optimization & ongoing support

We remain available to adapt and optimize policies, configurations, and infrastructure as needed, ensuring a seamless deployment tailored to your specific needs.

Let’s partner up and leverage service mesh technology together

Our experienced team of application developers will deliver professional service mesh layer im-plementation, helping you create a robust communication network. Whether you need to establish a new network or expand your existing microservices landscape, we follow best practices, meet deadlines, and exceed business expectations.

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    What are examples of service meshes?

    The most popular and well-established examples of service meshes include:

    • Istio: Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides advanced traffic management, observability, and security features. It integrates with popular platforms such as Kubernetes and supports multiple programming languages and frameworks.
    • Linkerd: Linkerd is another open-source service mesh designed for cloud-native applications. It focuses on simplicity, performance, and reliability. Linkerd offers features like traffic routing, load balancing, and observability.
    • Envoy: Envoy is a high-performance open-source proxy designed for modern architectures. It can be used as a standalone proxy or as a component of a service mesh. Envoy provides advanced load balancing, routing, and observability capabilities.
    • AWS App Mesh: AWS App Mesh is a managed service mesh provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows you to monitor and control traffic between microservices running on AWS, providing features like traffic routing, observability, and access control.
    • Azure Service Fabric Mesh: Azure Service Fabric Mesh is a fully managed service mesh offering by Microsoft Azure. It simplifies the deployment and management of microservices-based applications on Azure. It includes features such as automatic scaling, service discovery, and load balancing.
    • NGINX Service Mesh: NGINX Service Mesh is a commercial service mesh solution built on top of the popular NGINX web server. It provides features like traffic routing, load balancing, and security policies, offering enhanced control and visibility for microservices deployments.

    Each service mesh has its own set of features, capabilities, and integrations, allowing you to choose the one that best fits your specific requirements and environment.

    What is the difference between load balancer and service mesh?

    A load balancer is primarily responsible for distributing incoming traffic across backend servers to optimize resource utilization. On the other hand, a service mesh focuses on managing and securing communication between microservices, offering additional features beyond traffic routing, such as observability and security. Load balancers are typically employed at the network layer, while service meshes operate at the application layer. They work in conjunction with load balancers to provide comprehensive infrastructure management for distributed applications.

    Is service mesh necessary?

    The necessity of a service mesh depends on the specific requirements and complexities of your application architecture. While service mesh technology offers numerous benefits, it may not be required in all scenarios. The decision to adopt a service mesh should be based on a careful evaluation of your application’s specific needs, complexities, and future growth plans. Consulting with experienced architects or engineers can help determine if a service mesh is necessary and how it can benefit your particular use case

    What’s a service mesh and why do I need one?

    A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that facilitates communication between microservices in a distributed application. It offers traffic management, security, observability, resilience, and scalability capabilities. By providing these features, a service mesh simplifies the management of complex microservices architectures, ensuring efficient and secure communication between services. If you have a growing number of microservices and need to enhance communication, security, and observability, a service mesh is essential for you.

    What does the service mesh do?

    A service mesh provides several key functions in a microservices architecture:

    • Traffic management: It controls and optimizes the flow of network traffic between microservices, ensuring efficient distribution of requests.
    • Service discovery: It enables automatic service discovery, simplifying the process of locating and communicating with microservices.
    • Security and policy enforcement: It provides built-in security measures like authentication and encryption to protect data and enforce access policies.
    • Observability: It offers monitoring and tracing capabilities to gain insights into the interactions and performance of microservices.
    • Resilience and fault tolerance: It helps handle failures and disruptions, ensuring the system remains available and responsive.
    • Scalability and deployment flexibility: It supports dynamic scaling of microservices to adapt to changing workloads.

    In summary, a service mesh manages traffic, enhances security, provides observability, ensures resilience, and enables efficient scaling in a microservices architecture.

    Which is the best service mesh?

    The choice of the best service mesh depends on various factors, including specific requirements, use case, and preferences. The best service mesh for your needs will depend on factors such as application architecture, infrastructure, programming languages, and integration requirements. Consulting with us can help you evaluate each service mesh’s features, compatibility, community support, and ease of use to determine the best fit for your project.

    What is a service mesh network?

    A service mesh network is an infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It uses sidecar proxies deployed alongside each microservice to handle tasks like traffic routing, load balancing, and security. Service mesh networks offer benefits such as improved observability, centralized management, and enhanced security. They simplify microservices development and management by abstracting away networking complexities and enabling fine-grained control over communication.

    Is service mesh only for microservices?

    Service mesh is commonly associated with microservices architectures, but its benefits can extend beyond microservices. It can be utilized in monolithic applications to enhance specific aspects such as traffic management, security, and observability. In hybrid environments, service mesh helps manage communication between microservices and monolithic components. While service mesh shines in microservices architectures, its concepts and advantages can be leveraged in other application styles to improve networking, security, and observability.

    What is the purpose of service mesh in Kubernetes?

    A service mesh in Kubernetes enhances and manages communication between microservices within a Kubernetes cluster. While Kubernetes offers a robust container orchestration platform, it lacks built-in features for handling the complexities of microservices communication. This is where a service mesh, like Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy, comes in, integrating into the Kubernetes environment to provide advanced networking capabilities and additional functionalities.

    What is a service mesh data plane?

    The service mesh data plane is a vital component of a service mesh architecture, responsible for managing network traffic between microservices. Implemented using sidecar proxies, it facilitates routing, load balancing, security, and observability within the service mesh. It plays a critical role in handling actual network traffic between microservices and ensuring efficient communication within the service mesh architecture.