Solo.io, a software company that
helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies,
today announced the open-source Service Mesh Hub, the industry's first unified
dashboard for installing, discovering, operating and extending a single service
mesh or group of meshes, with multi-cluster ‘virtual mesh' orchestration and
support for the new Istio 1.5.
Early on, Solo.io Founder Idit Levine recognized that in a hybrid
IT world, with a myriad of service mesh providers, there would be a critical
need to simplify the use of any or multiple service meshes, from installation
to operation. Solo.io addressed this need with the open-source orchestration
project SuperGloo, and with its vision for
Service Mesh Hub. Solo.io also collaborated with Microsoft as a launch partner
in the Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
Specification to drive standardization in the service mesh industry. These
efforts are part of Solo.io's mission to provide a simple yet powerful and safe
experience to service mesh users, and the consistency and interoperability that
foster ecosystem innovation.
"Today's announcement brings our vision to reality. Service mesh
offers security, observability and control benefits, but comes with significant
complexity. The Service Mesh Hub abstracts this complexity away from the users,
allowing them to quickly adopt the technologies they need," said Idit Levine,
founder and CEO of Solo.io. "We're introducing the Service Mesh Hub as an
open-source project, hoping to build a community that will help accelerate
service mesh adoption and facilitate collaboration, and to make multi-cluster
and multi-mesh a reality for everyone who needs it."
As part of today's
announcement, Service Mesh Hub adds enterprise-grade and multi-cluster support
for
Istio 1.5 to simplify installation,
upgrades, discovery and management. Istio is an open source service mesh led by
Google, IBM and Lyft to connect, monitor and secure microservices, which has
gained in popularity among Kubernetes end users. The latest version of Istio,
released March 5, carries forward the focus on improving the usability,
security and extensibility of Istio for end users, community and the ecosystem.