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Using mTLS for Service Security

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Explain the role of mTLS in securing service-to-service communication for MongoDB’s distributed services.

Discuss how mutual certificate validation provides workload authentication and encryption between components such as mongod, mongos, config servers, and supporting control-plane services. Cover certificate issuance, rotation, revocation, failure behavior, and the monitoring needed to detect authentication failures or unauthorized connections.