Conclusion

You have now seen the whole Service Mesh Pattern. This lesson puts the recap in one place. It also shows how the mesh relates to the patterns around it.

What the Pattern Gives You

A mesh gives you one implementation of the network behavior for the whole system. That implementation runs outside the application, so it is the same in every language your teams use. A Java service and a Go service get identical retry and timeout behavior. Nobody writes that code twice.

The rules change without a redeploy. The control plane pushes a new rule to the proxies, and the services keep running