Mutual TLS
509 certificates during the handshake, establishing two-way authentication instead of the one-way (server-only) authentication used in typical TLS connections.
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Glossary Terms(2)
Certificate Pinning
Certificate pinning is a security technique in which an application is hard-coded to trust only a specific TLS certificate, public key, or certificate authorit…
Mutual TLS (mTLS)
Mutual TLS (mTLS) is an extension of the standard TLS protocol in which both the client and the server present and verify X.509 certificates during the handsha…
Interview Questions(4)
What is a Service Mesh (from a Networking Perspective)?
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that manages service-to-service communication inside a microservices system by attaching a lightweight netwo…
How Would You Design a Service Mesh for Microservices?
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What is SSL/TLS Termination and Where Should It Happen?
SSL/TLS termination is the point in an infrastructure where encrypted HTTPS traffic is decrypted back into plain HTTP, typically at a load balancer, reverse pr…
What is Consul and How is it Used in DevOps?
Consul is a distributed service networking tool from HashiCorp that provides service discovery, health checking, a distributed key-value store, and service mes…