Over the course of this series, we are going to cover various topics associated with Google Cloud’s Anthos. The series will involve conceptual understanding supplemented by practical tutorials for you to get up to speed on what some consider a revolutionary piece of technology. By Alfred Tommy.
When you have a microservices based architecture, it proves challenging to manage these individual services. For example, you may want to authenticate/authorise requests between services, you would probably like to get some observability on the network traffic between services, you may even want to split traffic between services. All this and more can be achieved with a service mesh.
Anthos actually comprises of a suite of services, the key ones being:
- Infrastructure management
- Container management and orchestration
- Service management
- Policy enforcement
The article then explains in detail installing Anthos Service Mesh with a Google Managed Control Plane. Plenty of screenshots and command line exmaples will get you going. Nice one!
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