Tradeoffs are real.
Service meshes add real complexity (CRDs, control plane,
upgrade pain, latency, debugging an extra hop). When is a mesh
PROBABLY overkill?
A) A 3-service startup with no compliance requirements where ingress
TLS + a few client libraries are already enough.
B) A 200-service enterprise with strict zero-trust requirements.
C) Any cluster with mixed languages.
D) Anywhere you do canary deploys.Sign in to save your code and track progress across devices.
