Istio, Tetrate

What’s new in Istio 1.7? VM Identity, simplified cert management and more!

Istio, the leading Open Source service mesh offering, today announced the general availability of their 1.7 release. The new features make it easier to bootstrap clusters and to maintain their own versions of software add-ons like Prometheus and Jaeger.

Istio’s 1.7 release was highly anticipated because of its focus on extending the mesh to work in virtual machine-based cloud environments. Tetrate was founded to solve this problem and has been solving this problem for the past year in partnership with customers in real deployments. In the 1.6 release, we expanded the mesh to include the VM environment while the 1.7 release, managed by Tetrate’s Cynthia Coan, addressed the gap of needing a verifiable identity for the VM.

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Istio, Service Mesh, Tetrate

Bridging Traditional and Modern Workloads

So many organizations find themselves straddling two worlds, the older ‘brownfield’ setup of Virtual Machines (VMs) and bare metal servers, and the ‘greenfield’ world of containers managed by Kubernetes. Managing a hybrid structure of these two types of infrastructures has a history of being time-consuming and complex, with an overburden on engineering to duplicate efforts. 

The addition of a service mesh to any environment that straddles ‘old’ and ‘new’ allows you to abstract away from disparate infrastructures and refocus your organization to being an application-centric entity. 

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