What is Google Cloud Traffic Director?
The service mesh architecture has emerged as a robust solution for managing the complexities of microservices and modern application deployments. At the core of the service mesh is a data plane, often powered by service proxies like Envoy, which handles the actual routing and traffic management tasks. Complementing this data plane is a control plane that provides centralized policy enforcement, configuration management, and advanced traffic control capabilities. Traffic Director, GCP's fully managed service mesh control plane, offers a comprehensive set of features to simplify the deployment and operation of modern, distributed applications. With Traffic Director, users can seamlessly implement global load balancing across clusters and VM instances spanning multiple regions, offload health checking from their service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies to govern the flow of traffic between services
Highlights
- Global load balancing across clusters and VM instances in multiple regions
- Offloading of health checking from service proxies
- Configuration of sophisticated traffic control policies