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How Service Mesh Layers Microservices Security with Traditional Security to Move Fast Safely

This is the first in a series of service mesh best practices articles excerpted from Tetrate’s forthcoming book, Istio in Production by Tetrate foundi

How Istio’s “Ambient Mode” Transparent Proxy—tproxy—Works Under the Hood

Istio’s new “ambient mode” is an experimental, “sidecar-less” deployment model for Istio. Instead of a sidecar proxy in front of every workload, ambie

Boost Root Cause Analysis Quickly with SkyWalking’s Trace-Metrics Association Feature

Observability for modern distributed applications is critical for understanding how they behave under a variety of conditions and for troubleshooting

How to Use Hashicorp Vault As a More Secure Way to Store Istio Certificates

In this article, we’ll explore how to use Hashicorp Vault as a more secure way to store Istio certificates than using Kubernetes Secrets

How to Use SkyWalking for Distributed Tracing in Istio

In cloud native applications, a request often needs to be processed through a series of APIs or backend services, some of which are parallel and some

How Istio’s mTLS Traffic Encryption Works as Part of a Zero Trust Security Posture

Introduction Istio feels like yet another step in a long chain of evolution of software systems

L7 Traffic Path in Ambient Mesh

In my last blog, I introduced transparent traffic intercepting and L4 routing in Ambient mode. In this blog, I will show you how L7 traffic is routed.

SkyWalking’s Storage Feature Based on ShardingSphere-Proxy: MySQL-Sharding

As an application performance monitoring tool for distributed systems, Apache SkyWalking observes metrics, logs, traces, and events in the service mes

Why the Gateway API Is the Unified Future of Ingress for Kubernetes and Service Mesh