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Announcements, AWS, Istio, Service Mesh, Tetrate Service Bridge

EKS is Anywhere and so is Tetrate

Tetrate works with Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere to bring seamless connectivity and management to Kubernetes applications both on-premises and in the cloud. One of Tetrate’s founding goals is to enable our customers to manage their applications everywhere––from edge to workload, between services and VMs, in datacenters and the cloud––and to do it securely, reliably, and scalably while providing a consistent experience to IT ops and developers across these environments.

That goal aligns perfectly with EKS Anywhere, Amazon’s new Kubernetes offering that reaches beyond AWS. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed compute platform for containers that allows customers to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in using roll-your-own Kubernetes to run modern applications on AWS. EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables customers to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. With EKS Anywhere, Amazon offers its customers a consistent Kubernetes experience both on-premises and in the cloud.

API Gateway, Istio, Service Mesh

Using Istio service mesh as API Gateway

API gateways have been around for a long time as the entry point for clients to access the back-end, mainly to manage “north-south” traffic, In recent years, service mesh architectures have become popular, mainly for managing internal systems,(i.e. “east-west” traffic), while a service mesh like Istio also has built-in gateways that bring traffic inside and outside the system under unified control. This often creates confusion for first-time users of Istio. What is the relationship between the service mesh and the API gateway? How does Istio’s gateway work? What are the ways to expose the services in the Istio mesh? This article gives you the answer.

Service Mesh, Tetrate

Multicluster Management with Kubernetes and Istio

Do you have multiple Kubernetes clusters and a service mesh? Do your virtual machines and services in a Kubernetes cluster need to interact? This article will take you through the process and considerations of building a hybrid cloud using Kubernetes and an Istio Service Mesh. Together, Kubernetes and Istio can be used to bring hybrid workloads into a mesh and achieve interoperability for multicluster. But another layer of infrastructure — a management plane — is helpful for managing multicluster or multimesh deployments.

Istio, Service Mesh

What is Istio operator?

For a long time, the primary tools for installing, upgrading, and managing Istio installations were Helm and Kubernetes CLI. Later, Istio 1.4 introduced a new method of installing Istio using the Istio CLI.

Istio, Open Source, Service Mesh

How to debug microservices in Kubernetes with proxy, sidecar or service mesh?

Kubernetes is arguably the best environment for running microservices so far, but the experience of debugging microservices in a Kubernetes environment may not be as user-friendly. This article will show you how to debug microservices in Kubernetes, introduce common tools, and explain how the introduction of Istio impacts debugging microservices.

Istio, Service Mesh

Discovery selectors in Istio 1.10

Discovery selectors were one of the new features introduced in Istio 1.10. Discovery selectors allow us to control which namespaces Istio control plane watches and sends configuration updates for. By default, the Istio control plane watches and processes updates for all Kubernetes resources in a cluster. Istio configures Envoy proxies in the mesh to reach every workload in the mesh and accept traffic on all ports associated with the workloads.

Envoy proxy & GetEnvoy, Events, Istio, Open Source, Service Mesh, Tetrate

KubeCon EU 2021: Tetrate Takeaways

In light of the collaboration that marks the cloud native community’s approach to today’s distributed workplaces and environments, the title hashtag of KubeConEU 2021 was #TeamCloudNative. This year’s virtual conference brought together this massive community and included hundreds of sessions and 11 distinct Zero Day co-located events.

Announcements, Istio, Open Source, Service Mesh, Tetrate

Tetrate launches Industry-first exam for Certified Istio Administrator

Enterprises are increasing their investments in digital transformation and in hiring the right talent to accelerate the journey. According to the 2020 open source jobs report from Linux Foundation, 52% of hiring managers are more likely to hire someone with a certification, up from 47% two years ago. Not so surprisingly, 93% of hiring managers report difficulty finding sufficient talent. Tetrate today announced the public availability of its exam for Certified Istio Administrator by Tetrate (CIAT) that evaluates skill, knowledge, and ability to perform Istio service mesh installation and configuration as well as configure traffic management, resilience and fault injection, and use security features of the Istio service mesh. This follows the February launch of the free training and certification course on Istio Fundamentals. Over 600 IT professionals have taken the training since then.

Announcements, Service Mesh, Tetrate, Tetrate Service Bridge

Tetrate Service Bridge is generally available

We are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of the Tetrate Service Bridge. Tetrate is on a mission to take the complexity of application networking and make it simple for application developers and operators. And today marks an important milestone on our path.

Service Mesh

Why do you need Istio when you already have Kubernetes?

If you’ve heard of service mesh and tried Istio, you may have the following questions:

Why is Istio running on Kubernetes?
What is the role of Kubernetes and a service mesh in the cloud-native application architecture, respectively?
What aspects of Kubernetes does Istio extend? What problems does it solve?
What is the relationship between Kubernetes, Envoy, and Istio?

This article will take you through the inner workings of Kubernetes and Istio. In addition, I will introduce the load balancing approach in Kubernetes, and explain why you need Istio when you have Kubernetes.