Integrating Open Policy Agent (OPA) With Kubernetes

Open policy agent (OPA, pronounced “oh-pa”) is a tool that provides a unified framework and language for declaring, implementing, and controlling the policies of each component in the cloud-native solution. It also supports policy as code of various platforms including Kubernetes….

Service Mesh: What it is and why it matters?

Summary: What is Service Mesh and why it matters? A Service Mesh is an addressable infrastructure layer for service-to-service communication, abstracts away the network complexity, and other challenges from your application. Meaning It allows you to separate application from networking so…

Kubernetes Architecture Diagram Explained

Summary: Kubernetes is an open-source version of Borg. It is a container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, management, and networking of containers. It has been open-sourced since 2014 and primarily developed by Google using the Go Programming Language. Many…

Istio architecture explained

Istio Architecture: Istio service mesh commonly comprises of two planes: a control plane and data plane The data plane is implemented in such a way that it intercepts all inbound and outbound traffic for all services (network traffic). Control plane enable…