Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for service to service communication and authentication via a network mesh. Particularly, aspects are directed to receiving, at a network mesh, a service request for a first service, and obtaining information associated with the first service. The information includes a location of a first pod encapsulating the first service. The network mesh using the location of the first pod, retrieves security rules specific for the first pod. The network mesh forwards the service request to the first service based on the security rules of the first pod and obtains results of the service request from the first service. The results include a sub result obtained from a second service in accordance with security rules for the first pod encapsulating the first service and security rules for a second pod encapsulating the second service.