A Developer’s Introduction to Service Mesh

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Builds a working mesh with HashiCorp Consul + Envoy on Kubernetes and shows concrete configs: a 50/50 traffic split routed by proxy, mTLS issued to each sidecar, and intent-based API allow rules enforced by proxy filters. Demonstrates certificate injection working between proxies, explains that tracing only works when apps add OpenTelemetry and that proxy traces are exported to Jaeger and metrics merged for Prometheus, and shows load‑balancing across Java and .NET instances.

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1. 0:00Service mesh intro for devs
2. 1:28Why devs need service mesh
3. 3:34Service communication core
4. 5:01Proxies enable mesh
5. 7:27Deploying proxies in K8s/VMs
6. 8:30Service discovery
7. 10:59Load balancing
8. 13:48mTLS and API auth security
9. 18:47Traffic management
10. 21:52Telemetry in mesh
11. 27:12Merging app and proxy metrics
12. 28:59Summary

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