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Aleksei Aleinikov
Aleksei Aleinikov

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Why mTLS in 2025 Is Just Hygiene (Not a Luxury) πŸ”

Microservices empower teams β€” but they also create chaos in service-to-service communication.

In 2025, I don’t hard-wire retries, timeouts, and TLS configs into every service. Instead, I let Istio + mTLS handle it:
βœ… Encryption by default β€” every channel is trusted, no extra work in your code
βœ… Fine-grained policies β€” only the right service can call the right target
βœ… Observability out of the box β€” per-route metrics, retries, and latency at P95/P99

In my guide I share 3 real scenarios you can copy right away:

  • Canary release with traffic splitting & retries 🎯
  • Zero trust policy (only Profile can call Notifications) πŸ”’
  • Safe external API access with ServiceEntry 🌍

πŸ‘‰ Read the full article to see configs, pitfalls, and a simple path to mTLS that feels like hygiene, not luxury.
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/why-mtls-in-2025-is-hygiene-not-luxury-set-it-up-in-n-minutes-and-move-on-d1e2d79b84b6

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