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Overview

As your applications evolve into collections of decentralized microservices, monitoring and managing the network communications and security among those multiple services becomes more challenging.

Red Hat® OpenShift® Service Mesh offers a uniform way to connect, manage, observe, and provide security for microservices-based applications. It includes behavioral insight into—and control of—the networked microservices in your service mesh.

OpenShift Service Mesh is based on the open source Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects. It supports the Istioctl command line utility for diagnostics and management of the control plane and data plane, along with the Kiali and OpenShift Service Mesh Console dashboards.

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Why choose Red Hat

OpenShift Service Mesh helps developers increase productivity by integrating communications policies without changing application code or integrating language-specific libraries. It’s production-ready, pre-validated, and fully supported to work on Red Hat OpenShift, a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. 

OpenShift Service Mesh integrates with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform features and other open source solutions to help extend the security, control, and management of your service mesh. Integrations include Red Hat Connectivity Link, Red Hat OpenShift Observability, cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Gitops, and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. OpenShift Service Mesh also comes with access to Red Hat’s award-winning support.

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Features and benefits

Security-focused

Gain access to comprehensive application networking security with transparent mTLS encryption and fine-grained policies that facilitate zero-trust networking.

Traffic management

Control the flow of traffic and application programming interface (API) calls between services, make calls more reliable, and make the network more robust.

Multicluster topologies

Deploy a single service mesh across multiple OpenShift clusters to support high-availability across clusters, zones, and regions with unified management.

Telemetry

Gain understanding of the dependencies between services and the flow of traffic between them via OpenShift Console, providing the ability to quickly identify issues.

Policy enforcement

Apply organizational policy to the interaction between services, to ensure access policies are enforced and resources are fairly distributed among consumers.

Observability

Visualize, validate, and troubleshoot your service mesh with OpenShift Service Mesh Console Plugin. Monitor mesh component health and inspect traces and logs from a comprehensive user interface.

Tour Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3

Preview Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 in this interactive walkthrough that provides an overview of what OpenShift Service Mesh 3 includes, a guide for installation, and an opportunity to deploy a sample application. Get started today.

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Keep learning about Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

E-book

Istio service mesh for microservices

Learn about several key microservices capabilities that Istio provides for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.

E-book

Heading to production with OpenShift Service Mesh

 A guide to production deployment and Day 2 operations for OpenShift Service Mesh.

Documentation

Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Get the latest documentation for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh. Explore key capabilities and the latest features.

Blog

Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0

Get information about OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0 and the new operator it's built on, and find out how to migrate.

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