Service Management in Virtual Machine and Container Mixed Environment using Service Mesh

Abstract

The microservice architecture is an architectural style in which a service focused on performing one function is divided into independent and deployable small units of service, linked with other services through API, and independently developed and operated. However, in the communication between APIs, additional functions are required for communication between microservices such as load balancing and logging. This can be solved through service mesh, but currently service mesh only considers the container environment, so additional design is required for a structure that can manage virtual machines in the service mesh structure. In this paper, we propose a structure for deploying and managing microservices in a container and virtual machine mixed environment using service mesh.