Reference Architectures

Battle-tested architecture patterns for production workloads.

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Microservices on Kubernetes

A production-ready microservices architecture running on Kubernetes with a service mesh for traffic management, comprehensive observability stack, and GitOps-based deployments.

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Architecture Diagram

Internet
Istio Ingress Gateway
Service Mesh (Pods)
Service AService BService C
Data Layer
DatabaseCache

Components

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Container orchestration platform

Istio Service Mesh

Traffic management and security

Prometheus + Grafana

Metrics and visualization

ArgoCD

GitOps continuous delivery

Jaeger

Distributed tracing

Fluent Bit

Log aggregation

Scaling Strategy

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) for automatic scaling based on CPU/memory
Cluster Autoscaler for dynamic node provisioning
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) for resource optimization
KEDA for event-driven autoscaling

Best Practices

1Use namespaces for environment isolation
2Implement circuit breakers with Istio
3Set resource requests and limits for all containers
4Enable mTLS between services
5Use PodDisruptionBudgets for high availability