supplied configuration. Instances are delivered to individual <a href="#mixer-handler">handlers</a>, on their way to infrastructure backends.</p></dd><dt id="mutual-tls">Mutual TLS Authentication</dt><dd role="definition" aria-labelledby="mutual-tls"><p>Mutual TLS provides strong service-to-service authentication with built-in identity and credential management. <a href="/v0.6/docs/concepts/security/mutual-tls.html">Learn more about mutual TLS authentication</a>.</p></dd></dl><h4 id="P">P</h4><dl><dt id="pi