Management of service meshes established between virtual computing instances and external devices

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device:

• to maintain a register of interface endpoints for one or more external devices coupled to one or more physical hardware ports of one or more host devices and one or more virtual ports associated with one or more virtual devices running on one or more virtual computing instances;
• to generate, in response to establishment of a given service mesh enabling a given application running on a given one of the one or more virtual computing instances to consume data from a given one of the one or more external devices coupled to a given one of the one or more physical hardware ports of a given one of the one or more host devices, a given logical-to-physical mapping between (i) a given virtual identifier of a first interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints associated with a given one of the one or more virtual ports associated with a given one of one or more virtual devices running on the given virtual computing instance and (ii) a given physical identifier of a second interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints associated with the given external device coupled to the given physical hardware port of the given host device;
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• to control exchange of data for the given service mesh based at least in part on the given logical-to-physical mapping and one or more policies.

A method comprising:

• maintaining a register of interface endpoints for one or more external devices coupled to one or more physical hardware ports of one or more host devices and one or more virtual ports associated with one or more virtual devices running on one or more virtual computing instances;
• generating, in response to establishment of a given service mesh enabling a given application running on a given one of the one or more virtual computing instances to consume data from a given one of the one or more external devices coupled to a given one of the one or more physical hardware ports of a given one of the one or more host devices, a given logical-to-physical mapping between (i) a given virtual identifier of a first interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints associated with a given one of the one or more virtual ports associated with a given one of one or more virtual devices running on the given virtual computing instance and (ii) a given physical identifier of a second interface endpoint in the register of interface endpoints associated with the given external device coupled to the given physical hardware port of the given host device;
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• controlling exchange of data for the given service mesh based at least in part on the given logical-to-physical mapping and one or more policies;
• wherein the method is performed using at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.