Description: The Service Mesh Architecture is a design that enables the management of communications between services in a microservices architecture. This approach focuses on the interconnection of independent services, facilitating communication, security, and observability. Instead of each service handling its own communications, the service mesh acts as an intermediary that manages network traffic, allowing developers to focus on business logic without worrying about communication details. Key features of this architecture include intelligent routing capabilities, security policy management, metrics collection, and resilience implementation through patterns like circuit breakers. The service mesh also allows the integration of different communication protocols, facilitating interoperability between services written in different programming languages. In general, the service mesh architecture is applicable across various cloud environments and container orchestration platforms, enhancing scalability and operational efficiency in managing microservices.
