[TIL] K8s: Difference between ingress controller and service mesh

1 min readmicroservices, k8s

TIL about the difference between ingress controller and service mesh.

The former is responsible for managing traffic that flows into the the application (North-South traffic).

The latter is used to mediate and secure service-to-service communication within the cluster (East-West traffic).

Diagram of ingress controller and service mesh