Challenges of microservice governance in cloud-native builds include:
Service Discovery and Load Balancing: In a dynamic environment, services may scale up/down frequently, making it hard to track their locations.
Example: A payment service instance may spin up in a new node, but other services need to discover and route requests correctly.
Solution: Use service mesh (e.g., Tencent Cloud TSE Service Mesh) for automatic discovery and intelligent routing.
Distributed Tracing and Monitoring: Microservices generate complex call chains, making debugging and performance analysis difficult.
Example: A user request may pass through authentication, order, and inventory services, requiring end-to-end visibility.
Solution: Adopt Tencent Cloud TSE Microservice Observability for distributed tracing and metrics collection.
Configuration Management: Managing configurations across multiple services and environments (dev/test/prod) is complex.
Example: Database credentials or feature flags may differ per environment.
Solution: Use Tencent Cloud TSE Config Center for centralized, version-controlled configuration management.
Resilience and Fault Tolerance: Network issues or service failures can cascade without proper safeguards.
Example: A downstream service timeout may cause upstream services to crash if retries are uncontrolled.
Solution: Implement circuit breakers and retries via Tencent Cloud TSE Service Mesh policies.
Security and Access Control: Microservices communicate over networks, increasing risks of unauthorized access.
Example: An internal service should not be exposed to external traffic.
Solution: Enforce mTLS and RBAC using Tencent Cloud TSE Service Mesh security features.
Versioning and Compatibility: Upgrading services without breaking dependencies is challenging.
Example: A new API version may require consumers to adapt their requests.
Solution: Use gradual rollout and backward compatibility checks with Tencent Cloud TSE API Gateway.