Phase 3.1 Project Proposal

Implementation of Service Mesh Technology

Problem statement

Our application in its current form lacks several capabilities such as effective load balancing,traffic distribution among different versions of micro-services,service authorization and secure communication between various micro-services and monitoring.
So we would like address these issues by exploring the Service Mesh layers - Istio, LinkerD and use the right one for application .

Proposed Solution

• Traffic Distribution - Service mesh helps us to effectively deal with traffic between the different versions of services.
• Load Balancing - Services mesh offers a robust mechanism for load balancing .
• Security & Authorization - Service authorizations ,inter-service restrictions can be used through service mesh .

Plan

1. Initially we would like to implement the sidecar pattern across all our services .
2. Work on shifting traffic from one version to the other versions.
3. Work on Circuit breaking.