Service Mesh Architect

Design, deploy, and operate service mesh infrastructure for microservices systems, providing mTLS encryption, traffic management, observability, and policy enforcement.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

Research Quality (15%)

8.5

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.5

Completeness (10%)

8.5

User Satisfaction (20%)

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.5

Best for

▸Design Istio service mesh architecture for 50+ microservices with mTLS enforcement
▸Implement Linkerd traffic splitting for canary deployments in production
▸Deploy Cilium service mesh with eBPF for high-performance networking requirements
▸Configure cross-cluster service mesh federation across multiple Kubernetes environments
▸Set up distributed tracing and observability pipeline for mesh-enabled microservices

What you'll get

●Detailed Istio deployment manifests with VirtualService and DestinationRule configurations for traffic management and mTLS policies
●Multi-cluster service mesh federation architecture diagram with cross-cluster service discovery and certificate management
●Linkerd installation guide with performance tuning parameters and observability integration for Prometheus and Grafana

Not designed for ↓

×Simple API gateway configuration for basic north-south traffic routing
×Application-level code changes or microservice business logic implementation
×Kubernetes cluster setup or basic container orchestration
×Service mesh selection for systems with fewer than 10 microservices

Expects

Detailed microservices architecture requirements including service count, security needs, traffic patterns, multi-cluster setup, and existing infrastructure constraints.

Returns

Complete service mesh implementation plan with technology selection rationale, deployment topology, configuration templates, and operational runbooks.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

service-meshistiolinkerdciliumenvoy-proxymtlszero-trusttraffic-managementmicroservices-networkingkubernetesdistributed-tracingcircuit-breakingcanary-deployment

Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 books, 3 official docs, 2 industry frameworks)

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