Service Mesh Survival Guide: Istio Implementation on High-Performance VPS

If you are running more than ten microservices, you have likely stared at a kubectl logs stream and wondered where exactly the request died. Was it a network timeout? Did the payment service reject the token? Or did the database connection pool in the inventory service just dry up?

Monoliths had their problems, but debugging a single stack trace was infinitely simpler than tracing a request bouncing between 15 pods across three nodes. This is where the "microservices tax" hits hard. You trade code complexity for operational complexity.

In Norway, where reliability is often contractually tied to Datatilsynet (Data Protection Authority) mandates regarding data integrity and uptime,