Why Tetrate Service Bridge

Seamlessly manage application connectivity across your entire infrastructure – including multiple clusters, multiple clouds and on premises – from a single point of control. Tetrate Service Bridge was built from the ground up to support hybrid network and compute environments, reducing the complexity of managing application networking across your entire environment.

Eliminate the difference between north-south and east-west traffic. Tetrate Service Bridge combines edge, ingress and service mesh management together, eliminating the need for different products focused on gateway vs. service mesh management. With Tetrate, there is just application traffic.

Comprehensive application connectivity coordinates policy, configuration, observability and lifecycle across your entire application network.

• Global traffic routing, rate-limiting, load balancing and failover
• Fault tolerance capabilities like timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers
• Enforce authentication, authorization, and encryption including mTLS
• Fine-grained traffic control across all your compute clusters
• Traffic shifting between VMs and Kubernetes

Take security concerns out of the application code stack and put them in the application networking platform where they belong. Give your security team centralized control of policy for all your applications. Free your application developers from implementing security controls.

Give application teams the tools they need to manage their services without stepping on each other’s toes. Reduce the risk of accidental misconfiguration or malicious attack by limiting access to only the resources each team needs. Maintain agility while ensuring security across your organization by enforcing consistent global policies while delegating control to individual application teams.

Tetrate Service Bridge provides Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) compliant modules wherever encrypted communication is required. In addition, out-of-the box controls ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Audit log exports are also available to provide proof of current and historical adherence to governance and compliance standards.

Get a consistent set of both service and app-level signals from all your applications. Ensure alerts get to the right teams so they can take action as performance degradation starts, before your users notice. Skywalking under the hood means data collection will scale efficiently with your applications.

Give app teams a view of their service topology and dependencies at a glance. Provide them the tools they need to manage their SLOs. Ensure alerts get to the right people.

Collect consistent baseline metrics for all applications without having to get them from each app team. Create, measure and monitor both app and service-level SLOs across all your fleet. Use that in-depth knowledge of app behaviors to recognize anomalies and take action before users notice.

Increase release cadence with built-in tools to measure when it’s safe to release newly deployed versions of your services to live traffic. Tetrate Service Bridge gives you the confidence to move quickly plus the tools to safely roll back to a good state when needed.

Easily shift traffic from sick clusters to healthy ones, before your users notice. Equip app teams with the tools they need to understand their applications’ health and take action on early indicators with the best information possible at their fingertips.

Take the labor and risk out of updating new app versions as well as your underlying mesh infrastructure. Give your app teams the primitives for fast, safe application updates. Make it easy and safe for platform operators to keep application infrastructure up-to-date.

Offload reliability concerns to the mesh by using built-in recovery features like timeouts, retries and circuit breakers. Increase the ability to mitigate cascading failures with client-side load balancing. Decrease latency and minimize egress costs with locality-aware load balancing that ensures local traffic stays local.

Tetrate Service Bridge was architected from the ground up for mission-critical and regulated environments. Tetrate Service Bridge embeds a vetted and validated build of upstream Istio:

• Hardened, performant and fully upstream builds of Istio for common hardware (AMD64, v7, ARM64)
• FIPS-verified Istio and Envoy builds using FIPS-validated open source crypto including a FIPS compliance certificate
• SLAs for vulnerability patches (CVEs) backported for supported for N-4 versions of Istio.
• Tested by Tetrate on all major Kubernetes environments including EKS, EKS Anywhere, GKE and AKE

From solution implementation to education, best practices guidelines, architecture reviews and more, Tetrate can help your organization improve security and compliance and increase operational efficiency with measurable results. Our professional services offerings include individualized training, onboarding accelerators and technical account managers all designed to streamline your implementation, build agility and maximize the value of your investment.