What Does edge Service Mesh Do?

The edge Service Mesh is a technology that unifies all edge nodes and microservices running in a mim OE Cluster.

The edge Service Mesh provides capabilities for service discovery, cluster organization, and service telemetry.

The edge Service Mesh has a feature called the Ad Hoc Service Mesh that provides the ability to group nodes into a cluster in 3 ways; The first way is to group nodes according to the network to which they are connected. The second way is to group nodes in a cluster according to proximity. The third way is to group nodes according to the mimik account under which the nodes were created. (See Figure 1 below.)

Figure 1: The edge Service Mesh groups nodes according to 3 types of clusters

You can read the details of the Ad Hoc Service Mesh in the Key Concepts section of this document here.