GK Question

technology medium true_false

Service mesh provides infrastructure-level features like observability, security, and traffic management for microservices.

  1. True
  2. False

Answer: True

Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd, Consul) deploys sidecar proxies to handle service-to-service communication: mTLS encryption, traffic splitting, retries, metrics, and distributed tracing. Decouples infrastructure concerns from application code. Critical for cloud-native architecture questions.

Topic Cloud-Native Technologies
Exam Relevance SSC JE, Banking IT, UPSC