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Alauda Service Mesh

Alauda Service Mesh (ASM) is an enterprise-ready microservices management platform based on Istio. It simplifies the complexity of managing microservices-based applications by providing end-to-end observability, secure communication, advanced traffic management, and robust governance capabilities. ASM empowers developers to deploy and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure microservices architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments​

Modern Application Architecture
Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments
Compliance and Security
Performance Monitoring

Benefits of Alauda Service Mesh

Advanced Traffic Management

Optimizes network robustness and reliability through load balancing, rate limiting, canary releases, and dynamic routing capabilities​.

Enhanced Observability

Provides service topology visualization, distributed tracing, and real-time traffic metrics monitoring for quick issue detection and resolution.

Policy Enforcement

Ensures organizational policies are consistently applied for service interactions, enabling fair resource distribution and secure access control.

Comprehensive Security

Implements zero-trust networking with transparent mTLS encryption, fine-grained policy enforcement, and end-user authentication​.

Cross-Cluster Connectivity

Facilitates multi-cluster service meshes with centralized observability, secure cross-cluster communication, and geographic traffic load balancing.

Core Features of Alauda Service Mesh

Traffic Management
Manages ingress and egress traffic, dynamic service routing, load balancing, rate limiting, canary releases, and external service integration to optimize network flow and service interaction.
Observability
Provides service topology visualization, distributed tracing, real-time metrics monitoring, and customizable alerting to improve operational insights and system reliability.
Security
Implements mutual TLS encryption, fine-grained access control through RBAC, certificate management, and TLS configuration to ensure secure and compliant service communication.
Mesh Management
Automates sidecar injection, supports incremental canary upgrades for components, and streamlines troubleshooting of Envoy proxies to maintain seamless service operations.
Multi-Cluster Mesh
Enables centralized monitoring, secure cross-cluster communication, geographic load balancing, and seamless service discovery across multiple clusters to support hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
Extensibility

Customizes service mesh configurations with EnvoyFilter, integrates OpenTelemetry for tracing and metrics collection, and supports advanced data collection for Java applications.