A service mesh is a layer of IT infrastructure that controls service-to-service communication over a network to enable separate parts of an application to communicate with each other. It is often used ...

Service mesh: Manages all service-to-service (east-west) traffic within a distributed (potentially microservice-based) software system. It provides both functional operations, such as routing, and ...

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With Kubernetes becoming a hybrid cloud's foundation, we need a way to manage the network connections between the containerized applications and decentralized services. That's where Red Hat's ...

A service mesh is an emerging architecture for dynamically linking to one another the chunks of server-side applications -- most notably, the microservices -- that collectively form an application.

The rise of containers has led to the microservices paradigm, where software is developed and deployed as fine-grained services. Multiple services work in tandem to deliver the expected functionality ...

One of the shifts occurring in IT under the banner of digital transformation is the breaking down of large, monolithic applications into microservices—small, discrete units of functionality—that run ...

Microsoft pushed further into the increasingly entertaining service mesh space with its Open Service Mesh (OSM) project that builds on its already established Service Mesh Interface (SMI) initiative.

Microsoft Corp. said today it has created a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy server, and that it’s planning to hand over control of the project to the Cloud Native Computing ...

For now Microsoft appears to be sticking to its view that downloadable client software is a long way from extinction. In a memo, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie departs from company tradition and ...