Introduction to the Service Mesh

You already know the sidecar from the Sidecar Pattern chapter. This chapter asks what happens when every service gets a proxy sidecar, and one central system configures all of those proxies together.

That combination is called a service mesh.

What the Pattern Says

A service mesh is a separate layer that carries the traffic between your services. It is built from two parts.

The first part is a proxy running beside every service instance