3 — Service Mesh
Purpose
[stub: service-mesh] — see also Envoy and patterns/09-cloud-native-patterns/01-sidecar for real, non-stub content on the sidecar/mTLS mechanics this chapter builds on, and TLS Offload for the mTLS re-encryption trade-off at the mesh boundary.
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| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | networks |
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Related notes
1 — Virtual Networking
VPCs/VNets, subnets, route tables, and security groups as the building blocks of a cloud network.
2 — Kubernetes Networking
The Kubernetes networking model — pod network, CNI, kube-proxy, Services, Ingress, and the Gateway API.
4 — Load Balancing
L4 vs. L7 load balancing, round robin, least connections, consistent hashing, and health checks as the mechanics behind traffic distribution.
5 — CDN
Edge nodes, cache invalidation, Cache-Control, and origin shield as the mechanics behind a CDN's performance and cost story.