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Mastering Service Mesh

By : Anjali Khatri, Vikram Khatri
Book Image

Mastering Service Mesh

By: Anjali Khatri, Vikram Khatri

Overview of this book

Although microservices-based applications support DevOps and continuous delivery, they can also add to the complexity of testing and observability. The implementation of a service mesh architecture, however, allows you to secure, manage, and scale your microservices more efficiently. With the help of practical examples, this book demonstrates how to install, configure, and deploy an efficient service mesh for microservices in a Kubernetes environment. You'll get started with a hands-on introduction to the concepts of cloud-native application management and service mesh architecture, before learning how to build your own Kubernetes environment. While exploring later chapters, you'll get to grips with the three major service mesh providers: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul. You'll be able to identify their specific functionalities, from traffic management, security, and certificate authority through to sidecar injections and observability. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to effectively manage modern microservices-based applications.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Management
4
Section 2: Architecture
8
Section 3: Building a Kubernetes Environment
10
Section 4: Learning about Istio through Examples
18
Section 5: Learning about Linkerd through Examples
24
Section 6: Learning about Consul through Examples

Exploring the Consul key-value store

Consul's key-value store is a persistent layer that allows users to store configuration parameters and the metadata of services within a data center. The Consul Replicate (https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-replicate) tool can be used to perform cross-data center K/V asynchronous replication.

Consul's kv command is used to interact with the Consul K/V store via the command line to insert, update, and delete operations. The K/V store is also accessible through the HTTP API. The key-value can be monitored through watches, which can invoke handlers to take a specific action.

Let's go through an example of how to store key-values:

  1. We need to use a command-line tool to store values in a key-value store. Note that the keys are stored by separating its path components with a forward slash. This represents a tree structure, which can...