The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-233, Service Mesh Proxy Models for Cloud-Native Applications, is now available for public comment.
The service mesh has become the de facto application services infrastructure for cloud-native applications. It enables an application’s runtime functions (e.g., network connectivity, access control, etc.) through proxies that form the data plane of the service mesh. Different proxy models or data plane architectures have emerged, depending on the distribution of the network layer functions (i.e., L4 and L7) and the granularity of association of the proxies to individual services/computing nodes.
The purposes of this document are two-fold:
The public comment period is open through September 3, 2024. See the publication details for a copy of the draft and instructions for submitting comments.
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