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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #45

You are now working for an international company that has many Kubernetes projects on various Cloud platforms. These projects involve mainly microservices web applications and are executed either in…

The correct answer is A. Traffic Director. What you need is Service Management with capabilities of real-time monitoring, security, and telemetry data collection in a multi-cloud microservices environment. They are called Service Mesh. The most popular product in this category is ISTIO, which collects traffic flows and…

Submitted by dimitri_ru· Mar 30, 2026Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Question

You are now working for an international company that has many Kubernetes projects on various Cloud platforms. These projects involve mainly microservices web applications and are executed either in GCP or in AWS. They have many inter-relationships and there is the involvement of many teams related to development, staging, and production environments. Your new task is to find the best way to organize these systems. You need a solution for gaining control on application organization and networking: monitor functionalities, performances, and security in a complex environment. Which of the following services may help you?

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Options

  • ATraffic Director
  • BIstio on GKE
  • CApigee
  • DApp Engine Flexible Edition

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    57% (17)
  • B
    13% (4)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    23% (7)

Explanation

What you need is Service Management with capabilities of real-time monitoring, security, and telemetry data collection in a multi-cloud microservices environment. They are called Service Mesh. The most popular product in this category is ISTIO, which collects traffic flows and telemetry data between microservices, enforcing security, with the help of proxies that operate without changes to application code. Traffic Director can help in a global service mesh because it is a fully managed Service Management control plane. With Traffic Director, you can manage on-premise and multi-cloud destinations, too. B is incorrect because Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine is a tool for GKE that offers automated installation and management of Istio Service Mesh. So, only inside GCP. C is incorrect because Apigee is a powerful tool for API Management suitable also for on-premise and multi-cloud environments. But API Management is for managing application APIs and Service Mesh is for managing Service to Service communication, security, Service Levels, and control. Similar services with different scopes. D is incorrect because App Engine Flexible Edition is a PaaS for microservices applications within

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#service mesh#Traffic Director#multi-cloud Kubernetes#microservices networking

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