OpenShift blog

    March 25, 2021

    A Guide to Running your Application in the OpenShift Service Mesh

    What’s there to think about?   This post is a "checklist" of items that you should consider before you start to integrate your application into OpenShift Service Mesh (OSSM).  This is the checklist I ...

    Steve Bylo

    March 4, 2021

    Restricting User Access Via Service Mesh 2.0 and Red Hat Single Sign On

    Openshift Service Mesh 2.0 provides an easy way to connect microservices in a secure and consistent manner, and to build distributed, modulable and scalable applications on top of it. Connecting ...

    Gaetan Hurel

    November 10, 2020

    Federated Trust Across Service Mesh domains

    Introduction Mutual TLS (mTLS), which provides trusted communication between both a client and a server, is a primary motivation for using Red Hat Openshift Service Mesh. With a simple configuration ...

    Trevor Box

    November 5, 2020

    What Can You Do With OpenShift Service Mesh 2?

    OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 has just been released. For many of users, the upgrade brings a bunch of performance improvements and new functionality. Take a look at Jamie Longmuir's post to learn more ...

    Langdon White

    November 5, 2020

    Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0

    On the heels of releasing OpenShift 4.6, OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 provides a significant update to OpenShift’s service mesh capabilities. OpenShift Service Mesh includes an ecosystem of upstream ...

    Jamie Longmuir

    August 10, 2020

    Design Considerations at the Edge of the ServiceMesh

    Introduction In our experience of implementing Red Hat ServiceMesh, we found that the mesh behaves like a special zone within an enterprise network. Inside of it, configurations are clear and ...

    Raffaele Spazzoli, Trevor Box, and Joshua Mathianas

    April 8, 2020

    Istio on OpenShift in 2020

    Istio, the service mesh management platform for Kubernetes, had its first release in 2018. But, long before then, Red Hatters were already invested in Istio, helping to develop it, working with the ...

    Marek Czernek

    November 26, 2019

    How to Make Istio Work with Your Apps

    This post is a companion to the talk I gave at Cloud Native Rejekts NA ’19 in San Diego on how to work around common issues when deploying applications with the Istio service mesh in a Kubernetes ...

    Karen Bruner

    October 31, 2019

    Installing Service Mesh is Only the Beginning

    A microservice architecture breaks up the monolith application into many smaller pieces and introduces new communication patterns between services like fault tolerance and dynamic routing.One of the ...

    Alex Handy

    August 1, 2019

    Istio Security: Running Microservices on Zero-Trust Networks

    In our previous blog post about the Istio service mesh, we provided an overview of Istio’s features and capabilities and why you may (and sometimes may not, at least not yet) want to use it as a ...

    Karen Bruner

    June 28, 2019

    From the EnterprisersProject: How to Explain Service Mesh in Plain English

    You can always find great content for your bosses and C-Level's at the Enterprisers Project. They do a great job of explaining the high level concepts of digital transformation and how it relates to ...

    Alex Handy

    June 20, 2019

    Getting started with Istio Service Mesh - What is it and What Does it Do?

    Anyone who has even a passing interest in Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem has probably heard of Istio. Getting a clear description of what exactly Istio is, what it can (and can’t) do, and ...

    Karen Bruner