MeshScope

Abstract

The microservice architecture has been widely adopted in modern cloud environments. It greatly improves the flexibility of cloud applications by splitting a large and complex application into multiple microservices. To manage the communication among services, as an emerging microservice deployment paradigm, service mesh goes further. It builds a dedicated communication infrastructure layer that can transparently provide some standard features for microservices, such as load balancing, encryption, and access control. Benefiting from this, developers can focus on their applications' functionalities, and administrators can manage the inter-service communication elegantly and flexibly.