What's a Service Mesh?
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Kubernetes Service Mesh
An ambient mesh is sort of a name that we're familiar with in the Kubernetes ecosystem tied to a very popular service mesh in the CNCF called Istio. It removes this dependency of having one side-car container per application pod and it moves it to one proxy per Kubernete worker node. So instead of, let's say you were running 20 different application pods on one single Kuberneted node instead of having 20 different proxies, you have one proxy which handled things like layer-for-MTLS encryption or communication between different application components.
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