Back in 2018 VMware began a beta program based on Istio, a service mesh management platform. VMware has extended the capabilities of this offering to bring visibility, control, and security through microservices at the API level into their offering called NSX Service Mesh.
NSX Service Mesh works as an extension of the NSX-T Data Center platform for cloud-native applications like kubernetes containers and applies security and networking directly to the containers through the Container Network Interface (CNI). In short, a service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer that makes it easier to manage microservices and Istio, an open source project backed by Google, IBM, and Lyft, is probably the best-known service mesh. VMware has been a contributor to Istio and has participated in open source community projects like this. Basing the NSX Service Mesh on Istio, VMware makes it easier to on-board Kubernetes clusters and federate across multiple clouds and Kubernetes clusters. Bringing security, control, and visibility services directly to the containers you can now manage the transactions from services and better control the data they have access to through microservices transactions. This enhances security by managing authentication, authorization, and encryption of service communications. This will also provide the ability to trace, monitor, and log of a service transaction to gain visibility of the health and performance of an application’s microservices. The NSX Service Mesh also brings the following benefits:
NSX Service Mesh will be featured at VMworld 2019 and for those interested in learning more about this offering below are some of my recommendations from the published content catalog. NSX Service Mesh [MTE6098U] SPEAKERS Niran Even-Chen, Principal Systems Engineer, VMware Introduction to NSX Service Mesh [CNET1033BU] SPEAKERS Niran Even-Chen, Principal Systems Engineer, VMware Oren Penso, Cloud Native Staff Systems Engineer, VMware Getting Started with Service Mesh [CODE3102U] SPEAKERS Anderson Duboc, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware Cross-Cluster and Cross-Cloud Service Mesh Architecture and Use Cases [KUB1939BU] SPEAKERS Mark Schweighardt, Director, Product Management, VMware The Future of Networking with NSX [CNET1296BU] SPEAKERS Bruce Davie, CTO, APJ, VMware Marcos Hernandez, Chief Technologist - Networking and Security, VMware
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