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Apache SkyWalking, Observability, Open Source

Apache SkyWalking: v6 is service-mesh ready

Context

The integration of SkyWalking and Istio Service Mesh yields an essential open-source tool for resolving the chaos created by the proliferation of siloed, cloud-based services.

Apache SkyWalking is an open, modern performance management tool for distributed services, designed especially for microservices, cloud native and container-based (Docker, K8s, Mesos) architectures. We at Tetrate believe it is going to be an important project for understanding the performance of microservices. The recently released v6 integrates with Istio Service Mesh and focuses on metrics and tracing. It natively understands the most common language runtimes (Java, .Net, and NodeJS). With its new core code, SkyWalking v6 also supports Istio telemetry data formats, providing consistent analysis, persistence, and visualization.

Istio, Service Mesh, Tetrate

Multi-Cluster Communication – a Multi-Mesh Approach

By MATT TURNER

Current solutions for cross-cluster networking all use VPNs and a single control plane, with all the failure and latency problems that result. At Tetrate we’ve designed a scheme for using one Istio mesh per cluster to do cross-cluster routing. This post presents an open-source tool, Coddiwomple, which automates generation of the Istio config needed to enact this scheme.

Istio, Tetrate

Istio 1 0 Nightly on Eks

By MATT TURNER

The Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes, EKS, is the long-awaited hosted Kubernetes offering from AWS. It offers managed Kubernetes 1.10 clusters, and is currently GA in two regions in North America.

Building on Kubernetes, Istio is a service mesh that provides “An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.” Here at Tetrate we’re active contributors to Istio, and we dogfood the latest nightly versions in all of our own infrastructure.