Complex Microservices Environment: Without vs With a Service Mesh

Complex Microservices Environment: Without vs With a Service Mesh An architecture diagram generated by Archify. Service A · Without Service Mesh Service A Service B · Without Service Mesh Service B Service C · Without Service Mesh Service C Service D · Without Service Mesh Service D Service A · With Service Mesh Service A Service B · With Service Mesh Service B Service C · With Service Mesh Service C Service D · With Service Mesh Service D Service Mesh · Automates mTLS · policy · observability · With Service Mesh Service Mesh Automates mTLS · policy · observability manual implementation handled automatically control Without Service Mesh With Service Mesh Legend Backend Security

Without Service Mesh — in every service

  • • Manual mTLS implementation
  • • Retry logic
  • • Logging / metrics
  • • Circuit Breaker
  • • Growing duplicate code

With Service Mesh

  • • Automatic mTLS
  • • Centralized policy
  • • Unified observability
  • • Standardized security