Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

2019: Release of the solution OpenShift Service Mesh

On August 26, 2019 the Red Hat company announced release of the solution OpenShift Service Mesh intended for the effective organization of interservice interaction of applications Kubernetes on the Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform. Being based on the Istio, Kiali and Jaeger projects and applying possibilities of Kubernetes Operators, the solution ensures effective end-to-end functioning with architecture of microservice applications. It exempts development teams from a complex task of creation of network services by application development and business logicians.

As noted in Red Hat, microservices are a relevant option of transformation in the direction of the modern cloud focused applications, however their effective application in industrial environments is possible only at the solution of the whole complex of problems of interservice interaction. It causes emergence of service mesh-networks which undertake the corresponding infrastructure functions on traffic management, application the politician, to identification of services and security. The solution OpenShift Service Mesh expands abilities to manage with traffic in such infrastructures due to visualization of mesh-topology and tracking at the level of separate services that simplifies work with service mesh-networks. Transparent integration of such networks with Kubernetes – the OpenShift platform allows developers to improve implementation of microservice architecture. In turn, operation specialists have an opportunity to apply security policies at the level of separate services and network connections between them. According to the developer, all users of OpenShift Service Mesh benefit from emergence of the unified normalized environment both for corporate data center, and for a cloud, due to use of software-defined infrastructure on the basis of the Open source software.

According to the statement of the developer, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh offers uniform approach to control and management of network connections between microservice applications due to use of the improved and completely supported versions of the corresponding program projects with the open code integrated into structure of the OpenShift platform that provides several advantages:

• The end-to-end and focused on the developer approach due to unification and optimization of the appropriate basic technologies (Istio, Kiali and Jaeger). Integrating possibilities of Istio and Kiali on creation and management of service mesh networks and providing evident control of OpenTracing with means of Jaeger, the solution OpenShift Service Mesh helps developers to focus on functionality of applications.
• Trace and measurement by means of Jaeger allow developers to trace a chain of requests between services from the first to the last link.
• Visualization and control by means of Kiali visually displays topology of service mesh-network and the scheme of interaction of services.
• The integrated API gateway at deployment of OpenShift Service Mesh together with Red Hat 3scale simplifies traffic engineering between applications and a service backend.
• Installation and the Service Mesh setup in one click at the expense of Service Mesh

Operator and the Operator Lifecycle Management platforms simplifies for developers deployment of applications as service mesh-network. Service Mesh Operator executes deployment of Istio, Jaeger and Kiali together with configurations a single batch that helps to minimize the need for support of services and to automate standard tasks, such as installation, service and management of lifecycle, claim in Red Hat.

Being a part of the Red Hat OpenShift platform, the solution OpenShift Service Mesh is provided with Red Hat support that does it, according to the developer, by the optimal choice for creation of production systems and crucial applications. Besides, additional technical expertize, strategic consulting and analytical support is provided to users of OpenShift Service Mesh within services of Red Hat Services.

The solution Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Operator will be available on the OpenShift 4 OperatorHub portal in August-September, 2019.

"With release of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh we help developers to use more productively the Red Hat OpenShift platform, removing tasks of ensuring network interaction of services from their shoulders and giving the chance is more complete to be focused on development of business applications of new generation", 'Ashesh Badani, the vice president and the general manager of division of cloud platforms of Red Hat noted'

"Service mesh-networks are another considerable innovation for container technologies in the corporate sector in connection with complexity and scale of problems of interaction management of the interconnected microservices. Developers who want to use service mesh for the accelerated refactoring of microservice applications need experience of Red Hat in development of hybrid cloud environments and solutions of Kubernetes", 'Larry Carvalho, the director of research, IDC noted'