How do you secure inter-service communication in a microservices architecture?

Starting from the basis of understanding that your inter-service communication is meant to only happen inside private networks (ideally, no public traffic should reach these services), here are some recommendations: - Use encrypted channels, such as TLS to prevent common attacks such as man-in-the-middle. - Use an API gateway to manage and authenticate traffic that reaches this private network. - Enforce authentication and authorization for inter-service messages, making sure that only valid microservices can reach each other, and when they do, they only have access to what it makes sense for them to have.

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