Setup Service Mesh

Deploy and configure a service mesh for secure service-to-service communication and advanced traffic management.

When to Use

• Microservices architecture requires encrypted service-to-service communication
• Need fine-grained traffic control (canary deployments, A/B testing, traffic splitting)
• Require observability across all service interactions without application changes
• Enforce security policies (mTLS, authorization) at the infrastructure level
• Implement circuit breaking, retries, and timeouts consistently across services
• Need distributed tracing and service dependency mapping

Inputs

• Required: Kubernetes cluster with admin access
• Required: Choice of service mesh (Istio or Linkerd)
• Required: Namespace(s) to enable service mesh
• Optional: Monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)