e a number of important advantages to an API level approach.</p><h3 id=automatic-application-onboarding-and-policy-authoring>Automatic application onboarding and policy authoring</h3><p>Before microservices and service mesh, traffic management was done by load balancers and access controls were enforced by firewalls. Applications were identified by IP addresses and DNS names which were relatively static. In fact, that&rsquo;s still the status quo in most environments. Such environments stand to benefit imme