Patent attributes
Systems, methods and/or computer program products for managing and dynamically automating service mesh communications between microservices, eliminating unnecessary exposure of microservice ports and increasing security between microservices of the service mesh. The control plane collects data describing communications between microservices and tracks the frequency at which microservices communicate. Collected data is fed to machine learning models which outputs a forecast predicting future communication interactions between microservices. Using the predicted requirements for facilitating communications between microservices of the service mesh, an allowed list of communications can be generated describing the microservices allowed to send and receive communications, duration of communications allowed, when such communications are allowed, and the ports that will be used for facilitating the communication between microservices. Administrators of the service mesh may manually override the one or more approved aspects of the dynamically generated allowed list configured automatically by the service mesh.
