End-to-End Traffic Encryption with SSL/TLS: Securing Load Balancers in Cloud-Native Architectures
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In today’s rapidly evolving cloud-native landscape, ensuring secure communication between distributed components is essential for protecting sensitive data, maintaining trust, and meeting compliance requirements. End-to-end encryption using SSL/TLS has emerged as a foundational strategy to safeguard traffic as it moves between clients, load balancers, services, and internal microservices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This article explores the design, implementation, and management of encrypted traffic flows in Kubernetes-based architectures, with a focus on secure load balancing, certificate lifecycle automation, and observability. It examines the trade-offs between TLS termination, and passthrough models, and highlights how modern tooling such as ingress controllers, service meshes, and certificate managers enables consistent and automated security enforcement at scale.
Author: Gowda, Harish Govinda
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W6968524163
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