Two internal services need to talk securely. When is mTLS worth the operational pain and when do short-lived tokens win?

Choose by trust boundary, not fashion: mesh-issued mTLS inside a cluster, audience-bound tokens across teams and clouds, both together at scale. Static shared secrets are the thing being replaced.

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Choose by trust boundary, not fashion: mesh-issued mTLS inside a cluster, audience-bound tokens across teams and clouds, both together at scale. Static shared secrets are the thing being replaced.

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