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…his API provides all traffic rules that Envoy needs to discover and route traffic with the cluster. This is the ‘service mesh’.
…Envoy connects to this API based on the sidecar’ed configuration injected via the mutating webhook. This API provides all traffic rules that Envoy needs to discover and route traffic with the cluster. This is the ‘service mesh’.
Envoy on its own doesn’t contain the logic to discover pods and services in your cluster. Envoy acts as a data plane and wants a control plane, some kind of “puppet master”, to handle the configuration behavior. Envoy has a configuration flag…