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Overview
OSM runs an Envoy based control plane on Kubernetes, can be configured with SMI APIs, and works by injecting an Envoy proxy as a sidecar container next to each instance of your application. The proxy contains and executes rules around access control policies, implements routing configuration, and captures metrics. The control plane continually configures proxies to ensure policies and routing rules are up to date and ensures proxies are healthy.
Core Principles
- Simple to understand and contribute to
- Effortless to install, maintain, and operate
- Painless to troubleshoot
- Easy to configure via Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
Features
- Easily and transparently configure traffic shifting for deployments
- Secure service to service communication by enabling mTLS
- Define and execute fine grained access control policies for services
- Observability and insights into application metrics for debugging and monitoring services
- Integrate with external certificate management services/solutions with a pluggable interface
- Onboard applications onto the mesh by enabling automatic sidecar injection of Envoy proxy
Install
Prerequisites
- Kubernetes cluster running Kubernetes v1.15.0 or greater
- kubectl current context is configured for the target cluster install
kubectl config current-context
Get the OSM CLI
The simplest way of installing Open Service Mesh on a Kubernetes cluster is by using the osm
CLI.
Download the osm
binary from the Releases page. Unpack the osm
binary and add it to $PATH
to get started.
sudo mv ./osm /usr/local/bin/osm
Install OSM
$ osm install
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