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—based on the open source project Istio —provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and observe microservices-based applications. It provides behavioral insight into—and control of—the networked microservices in your service mesh.
Benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Ready for production
Installs easily on Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud enterprise Kubernetes platform trusted by thousands of organizations around the globe.
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is pre-validated and fully supported to work on Red Hat OpenShift, straight out of the box.
Security-focused
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides comprehensive application networking security. This is achieved through transparent mTLS encryption and fine-grained policies that facilitate zero-trust networking.
Based on open source
Based on the open source Istio project, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides additional functionality with the inclusion of other open source projects like Kiali (Istio console) and Jaeger (distributed tracing), which supports collaboration with leading members of the Istio community.
What Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides
Support for your security needs
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides out-of-the-box security for your distributed applications.
- Connect services securely by default with transparent TLS encryption
- Enforce a "zero trust" or "need to know" network security model with fine-grained traffic policies based on application identities
Traffic management
Control the flow of traffic and API calls between your services with effective traffic management, which makes your applications more resilient.
- Manage traffic to facilitate failovers, canary deployments, traffic mirroring, A/B testing, and more
- Improve service reliability with automatic request retries, timeouts, and circuit breakers
Observability
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides a clear and intuitive end-to-end view of your services.
- Use service metrics to monitor application health, reliability, and performance
- Use distributed tracing to troubleshoot and isolate bottlenecks in end-to-end request paths
