Service Mesh: An Example

The last lesson described the parts of a mesh. This lesson uses two of them. We will apply a timeout and retry rule, then a traffic split. After that we read the application code that did not change.

The Setup

An order service calls a payment service. Both run in Kubernetes, and both have a proxy running beside them. That is the deployment shape from the Sidecar Pattern chapter, applied to both services.

The payment service is running in two versions, v1 and v2