Red Hat Connectivity Link
Red Hat® Connectivity Link is a Kubernetes-native solution that helps you manage your applications to connect and communicate across different cloud environments.
What is Red Hat Connectivity Link?
As businesses embrace multicloud strategies, they are faced with the growing complexity of managing application connectivity across diverse environments. The fragmented solutions many organizations rely on today are inefficient and lack scalability, making it increasingly difficult to keep up with innovation and evolving market demands. Red Hat® Connectivity Link is a Kubernetes-native solution that helps you manage your applications to connect and communicate across different cloud environments. As a connectivity management tool, Connectivity Link is designed to simplify and enhance application connectivity, application management, and security across multicloud and multicluster environments.
With Red Hat Connectivity Link, customers can simplify complex multicloud environments. As organizations increasingly adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of managing application connectivity across these environments is growing. Connectivity Link provides automated, consistent connectivity management, which is essential for maintaining agility and reducing operational overhead.
Product details
Application connectivity
Manage application connectivity on a unified platform to streamline deployment, integration, and management processes.
Multicloud and multicluster connectivity
Scale and remain flexible with consistent connectivity, security, and policy management across diverse cloud and on-premise infrastructures.
DNS integration with high availability
Manage DNS configuration across multiple cloud service providers. Have automated record updating based on workload health status.
How is Red Hat Connectivity Link different?
Built on the foundation of the Kuadrant open source project, Connectivity Link uses Gateway API and Envoy proxy to provide a unified, efficient approach to managing incoming and outgoing network traffic.
Gateway API provides ingress traffic management across Kubernetes clusters, and Envoy is the default ingress gateway that simplifies deployment across clusters. Within the Envoy ingress gateway, a WebAssembly plugin (WASM) provides hardware-independent processing, allowing extensibility and compatibility across any environment where Envoy is deployed.
Integrated capabilities
To enhance the Kubernetes ecosystem, Connectivity Link provides integration capabilities to other Red Hat products such as Red Hat OpenShift® and OpenShift Service Mesh. Red Hat Connectivity Link focuses on simplified multicluster application connectivity and integrated advanced traffic management and policy enforcement directly into Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. When integrated with Connectivity Link, OpenShift Service Mesh manages traffic routing and security using Envoy and Istio.
Features and benefits
Use cases
Multicluster gateway support
With multicluster gateway support, platform engineers can manage cross-cluster connectivity and policies through a single interface. They can configure ingress gateways that can handle high traffic across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
Standardized ingress policy management
As application developers design microservices, they need secure, reliable access from various external systems. With API policy management, they can cohesively enforce policies for authentication, rate limiting, and load distribution.
Data plane service protection
If a company faces threats to their Kubernetes clusters landscapes, a data plane service protection policy can help enforce security policies at the data plane level that adapt to changing threat landscapes while ensuring compliance.
Location-based routing
As enterprises build distributed services, location-based routing helps them leverage advanced domain name system (DNS) strategies to direct traffic based on user location, ensure faster response times, and adhere to local regulations.
