Tetrate Now Offers Istio Support for Amazon EKS Hybrid and Auto Modes with New TIS+ Enhancements

Tetrate is excited to announce significant enhancements to our Tetrate Istio Subscription Plus (TIS+) offerings, aimed at providing enterprise Istio users with advanced visibility and troubleshooting tools across diverse environments.

In this article, we’ll cover:

• New features and capabilities now available in TIS+
• Our expanding partnership with AWS, now with validated Istio support for Amazon EKS Hybrid and Auto modes
• What our customers are saying about solutions to their most pressing operational challenges

What Is Tetrate Istio Subscription Plus?

Tetrate Istio Subscription offers enterprise support and assurance for Istio. TIS+ adds global visibility for Istio with self-service application troubleshooting, rapid root-cause analysis tooling, and a live, global troubleshooting console.

TIS+ is a hosted Day 2 operations solution for Istio designed to simplify and enhance the workflows of platform and support teams. Key features include: 

• Global Service Dashboard: Access a centralized platform that consolidates metrics, traces, and logs, offering a holistic view of your Istio-enabled services.
• Multi-Cluster Visibility: Aggregate data from multiple clusters to provide a comprehensive view of services, regardless of their location, ensuring consistent visibility across environments.
• Service Topology Visualization: Gain clear insights into service interactions across your entire mesh, facilitating better understanding and management of service dependencies.
• Workspace-Based Access Control: Implement fine-grained access controls based on “workspaces,” allowing teams to focus on their specific services and areas of responsibility, enhancing security and operational efficiency.

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TIS+ empowers platform operators and application teams with the visibility needed to ensure optimal performance, rapid troubleshooting, and informed decision-making across their Istio-enabled environments.

Validated Istio Support for Amazon EKS Hybrid and Auto Modes

Tetrate and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a long-standing partnership focused on making Istio accessible, reliable, and scalable for AWS customers. Tetrate was a launch partner with Amazon for EKS Anywhere, working with Amazon to ensure seamless integration with EKS and EKS Anywhere. And, most recently, we are proud to announce our continued collaboration with AWS to validate support for Istio on the newly launched Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes and Auto Mode features. This partnership offers:

• Seamless Integration: Tetrate’s Istio distribution integrates effortlessly with EKS Hybrid Nodes, enabling consistent service mesh functionality across hybrid environments, including on-premises and edge infrastructures.
• Simplified Operations with EKS Auto Mode: EKS Auto Mode automates the management of compute, storage, and networking for Kubernetes clusters. Tetrate’s Istio solutions have been rigorously tested to ensure compatibility and performance, allowing customers to benefit from simplified Kubernetes operations without compromising on service mesh capabilities.
• Enhanced Flexibility and Cost Optimization: Deploy Istio-based service meshes consistently across diverse infrastructure environments, leveraging AWS’s intelligent resource allocation to minimize compute costs and improve security.

What Customers Are Saying

In our conversations with Istio users, we’re seeing consistent themes driving TIS and TIS+ adoption, including:

Solving Practical Istio Issues

We see customers seeking practical, dependable solutions to streamline their operations, such as prioritized Istio fixes for TIS customers ahead of upstream releases and tools like Tetrate Config Analyzer to identify configuration issues before deployment. These solutions help enhance reliability, reduce downtime, and ensure smoother day-to-day management of Istio environments.

Providing Enhanced Istio Visibility & Troubleshooting to Supplement Existing Tools

Users are also looking to complement their existing monitoring solutions with advanced visibility and troubleshooting tools uniquely suited to application traffic managed by Istio. TIS+ delivers these capabilities directly at their fingertips, enabling deeper insights and faster resolution of issues within their service mesh.

Facilitating Multi-Cluster Deployments

We’re also seeing increasing adoption of multi-cluster Istio deployments to enhance scalability and resilience. As these environments grow, users are looking for robust solutions to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting cross-cluster communication, ensuring seamless service interactions and minimizing operational complexities.

What’s Next

These advancements underscore Tetrate’s commitment to providing cutting-edge service mesh solutions that integrate seamlessly with the latest cloud technologies, empowering enterprises to streamline their Kubernetes operations and accelerate their cloud-native journeys.

Watch this space to learn about the new features, capabilities, and use cases possible with TIS and TIS+, including:

• Enhanced metrics visualization for platform and application teams
• Including VMs in service topology, dependency, and metric
• Troubleshooting for sidercar-less deployments

Get Started

To learn more, here are some resources to help you get started:

• Free training. If you’re new to Istio, check out our free Istio training at Tetrate Academy, including Istio Fundamentals and our Istio 0-60 and Istio Wasm workshops ›
• Hardened Istio distribution. If you’re looking to take Istio for a test drive, install Tetrate Istio Distro, our open source, 100% upstream Istio builds with extended CVE patching and version support.
• CVE scanner. If you’re already running Istio, try our free CVE scanner ›
• Config verification Learn more about our Istio config verification tooling, Tetrate Configuration Analyzer:  Istio Configuration Security: How to Avoid Misconfigurations › 
• Let’s talk. Schedule a call with an Istio expert to find out how TIS and TIS+ can help speed delivery, reduce risk, and streamline Istio operations ›