Microservice Patterns Service Mesh And Traffic Management

Use When

• Fleet-wide traffic policies need consistency
• Teams require canary and security controls without app rewrites

Workflow

1. Define baseline traffic policy: timeout, retry budget, circuit behavior.
2. Enforce mTLS identity and authorization between services.
3. Configure canary, blue-green, or weighted routing rules.
4. Apply outlier detection and connection pool limits.
5. Monitor policy impact on latency and error budgets.

Required Checks