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Those looking for enterprise-ready traffic management for open service mesh.
About Google Cloud Traffic Director
Toil-free traffic management for your service mesh. Service mesh is a powerful abstraction that's become increasingly popular to deliver microservices and modern applications. In a service mesh, the service mesh data plane, with service proxies like Envoy, moves the traffic around and the service mesh control plane provides policy, configuration, and intelligence to these service proxies. Traffic Director is GCP's fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh. With Traffic Director, you can easily deploy global load balancing across clusters and VM instances in multiple regions, offload health checking from service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies. Traffic Director uses open xDSv2 APIs to communicate with the service proxies in the data plane, which ensures that you are not locked into a proprietary interface.
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Google Cloud Traffic Director Product Features
Load Balancing
Authentication
Automatic Configuration
Content Routing
Data Compression
Predefined Protocols
Redundancy Checking
Reverse Proxy
Schedulers
Content Caching
Health Monitoring
SSL Offload