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name: service-mesh description: Service mesh technologies including Istio, Linkerd, Consul, and Envoy for microservices communication sasmp_version: "1.3.0" bonded_agent: 03-containers-orchestration bond_type: SECONDARY_BOND

Service Mesh Skill

MANDATORY

• Service mesh fundamentals and sidecar pattern
• Istio installation and configuration
• Traffic management (routing, load balancing)
• mTLS and security policies
• Observability features (tracing, metrics)

OPTIONAL

• Linkerd lightweight mesh
• Consul Connect
• Envoy proxy configuration
• Circuit breaking and retries
• Canary deployments with mesh

ADVANCED

• Multi-cluster mesh federation
• Custom Envoy filters
• Performance tuning
• Zero-trust security architecture
• Service mesh for VMs

Assets

• See assets/service-mesh-config.yaml for Istio templates