AWS App Mesh is described as 'Service mesh that makes it easy to monitor and control services. A service mesh infrastructure layer dedicated to handling service-to-service communication, usually through an array of lightweight network proxies deployed alongside the application code' and is an app. There are 2 alternatives to AWS App Mesh for Linux, Self-Hosted and Kubernetes. The best AWS App Mesh alternative is Istio, which is both free and Open Source.
Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform...
A microservices-based application is split into small independent services that communicate with each other via APIs using lightweight protocols like HTTP, gRPC, Kafka and more. However, existing Linux network security mechanisms (e.g.
