open-consul/docs/service-mesh/README.md

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Service Mesh (Connect)

  • call out: envoy/proxy is the data plane, Consul is the control plane
  • xDS Server - a gRPC service that implements xDS and handles requests from an envoy proxy.
  • agent/proxycfg
  • Certificate Authority for issuing TLS certs for services and client agents
  • command/connect/envoy - bootstrapping and running envoy
  • command/connect/proxy - built-in proxy that is dev-only and not supported for production.
  • connect/ - "Native" service mesh