Simple Architecture: When a Service Mesh Is Not Needed

Simple Architecture: When a Service Mesh Is Not Needed An architecture diagram generated by Archify. User · Browser / client · Architecture component User Browser / client Load Balancer · Ingress Controller · Kubernetes cluster Load Balancer Ingress Controller Monolithic Application · Single service · Kubernetes cluster Monolithic Application Single service DB · Database · Architecture component DB Database HTTP request routing read / write Kubernetes cluster Legend Backend Database Cloud External

Use instead

  • • Kubernetes Ingress Controller (NGINX, Traefik)
  • • Simple load balancer
  • • Application-level implementation