A service mesh is necessary for organizations adopting microservices and dynamic cloud-based infrastructure. Traditional host-based network security must be replaced with modern service-based security to accommodate the highly dynamic nature of modern runtime environments.
In this talk, we will look at Connect a significant new feature in the open source Consul from HashiCorp. Connect provides secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
We will cover both the theory why a Service Mesh enhances your application security, and a deep dive on configuring and operating Connect and Envoy to secure your Kubernetes services.
Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go”, a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go,