Is an infra layer to connect services (via application layer (Ali,URLs..). Network connectivity is abstracted and gave it for granted.\\
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Intimately related to k8s and microservices\\
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Is a set of transparent proxies to control plane
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* Is an infra layer to connect services (via application layer (restapi,URLs..). All in the application layer, we don't worry about l1,l2,l3. Network connectivity is abstracted and gave it for granted.
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K8s provides container tooling whereas service mesh provides __**microservices**__ tooling.\\
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* A set of transparent proxies/sidecars (eg ngnix) intercept all Layer 7 traffic (basically https requests). The proxy is itself a container
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* Use cases:
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* Load balance traffic. More in the application level than anything.
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* For some part of the world, expose a version of the application, for the other one expose, let's say, the beta version.
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