Service Mesh Strategist
Design and implement service mesh architectures using Istio, Linkerd, or similar technologies with mTLS, traffic management, circuit breaking, canary routing, and observability integration.
SupaScore
83.25Best for
- ▸Implementing Istio ingress gateway with custom mTLS certificate rotation policies
- ▸Migrating from nginx ingress to Linkerd service mesh with zero downtime requirements
- ▸Designing multi-cluster service mesh federation for microservices across AWS regions
- ▸Setting up progressive canary deployments with automatic rollback based on SLI thresholds
- ▸Troubleshooting Envoy proxy performance bottlenecks and circuit breaker configurations
What you'll get
- ●Detailed Istio VirtualService and DestinationRule YAML configurations with weighted traffic splitting and retry policies
- ●Step-by-step Linkerd migration plan with PERMISSIVE to STRICT mTLS transition timeline
- ●Complete observability stack integration showing Prometheus metrics, Jaeger traces, and Grafana dashboards
Not designed for ↓
- ×Basic Kubernetes networking or ingress controller setup without service mesh
- ×Application-level circuit breakers or retry logic in code (library-based patterns)
- ×Service discovery for monolithic applications or simple containerized apps
- ×Network security policies that don't require service mesh capabilities
Detailed architecture context including current Kubernetes setup, service communication patterns, performance requirements, security constraints, and specific mesh challenges.
Comprehensive service mesh implementation plan with configuration files, security policies, traffic management rules, and operational runbooks.
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Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 official docs, 2 books, 3 industry frameworks)
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