Alibaba Cloud Native

Jun 24, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Service Mesh Discovers Services: ASM Config Push & Selective Discovery

This article explains the service discovery and configuration push mechanisms of Alibaba Cloud's managed Istio‑compatible service mesh ASM, demonstrates practical experiments with Sidecar clusters, shows how VirtualService rewrites work across mesh‑in and mesh‑out services, and provides step‑by‑step guidance to enable selective service discovery for performance optimization.