Service Mesh: Architectures, Applications, and Implementations

Behrooz Farkiani; Raj Jain

Service Mesh: Architectures, Applications, and Implementations

Networking and Internet Architecture 2024-05-24 v1

Authors: Behrooz Farkiani , Raj Jain

Abstract

The scalability and flexibility of microservice architecture have led to major changes in cloud-native application architectures. However, the complexity of managing thousands of small services written in different languages and handling the exchange of data between them have caused significant management challenges. Service mesh is a promising solution that could mitigate these problems by introducing an overlay layer on top of the services. In this paper, we first study the architecture and components of service mesh architecture. Then, we review two important service mesh implementations and discuss how the service mesh could be helpful in other areas, including 5G.

Keywords

microservices cloud computing serverless computing

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.13333,
  title  = {Service Mesh: Architectures, Applications, and Implementations},
  author = {Behrooz Farkiani and Raj Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13333},
  year   = {2024}
}