This year’s first ever Istio conference, was a resounding success, bringing together ~3,000 attendees and community members each day from across the globe. Istio has quickly become the leading service mesh for managing service-to-service communication of cloud-native services and this show demonstrated the resounding breadth and depth of development, adoption and interest across the Istio […]

At Solo.io, we work with a lot of customers or software providers that provide products to their customers that have compliance obligations around FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards). These are typically customers in the US Government, but not exclusively. FIPS is a set of rules about how cryptographic modules are implemented and apply to any […]

Today I am incredibly excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Gloo Mesh Enterprise, an enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native solution for service mesh management. Gloo Mesh simplifies service mesh adoption and day-two operations, enhances its usability, control, visibility, and security, and streamlines complex multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments. Originally announced in 2019, Gloo Mesh (previously Service Mesh […]

Announcing the GA of  Gloo Mesh Enterprise–A Modern Management Plane for Istio Service Mesh Today, I am super excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Gloo Mesh Enterprise based on upstream Istio. At Solo.io we are focused on helping organizations manage, secure, and expose their APIs in a highly decentralized, cloud-native approach. Gloo Mesh […]

During the February 16 Hoot, Scott Weiss dived into the problem of multi-cluster networking in Kubernetes, and reviewed a few different existing solutions (ours with Gloo Mesh, Istio’s native solution, and Intuit’s Admiral). If you missed the live episode, you can watch a recording here:     On our next episode, watch Yuval Kohavi at […]

Don’t Miss These 6 Solo.io Sessions at IstioCon February 22-26th Get excited! This year marks the first ever Istio conference, Monday February 22 to Friday February 26. IstioCon is a 100% virtual event that is designed to connect community members across the globe with Istio and the Istio ecosystem. The event will showcase lessons learned […]

Introduction Failover is the ability to seamlessly and automatically switch to a reliable backup system to make critical systems more fault-tolerant and avoid major business impacts. The following tutorial demonstrates how to easily configure the failover for your upstreams using Gloo Edge. Gloo Edge Gloo Edge is a feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller, and next-generation API […]

    In this article, you will learn how Gloo Edge can enforce a custom security policy.   Gloo Edge Gloo Edge is the next generation API Gateway built on top of Envoy. This means you get the power of the most famous cloud-native proxy without the hassle of having to understand its inner workings. […]

As more and more organizations leveraging Istio service mesh turn to Solo.io for production support, FIPS compliance, and architecture/operations best practices, we start to see patterns emerge and common questions arise. When we see enough of those questions, we try to share when we have a few moments to write. In this blog post, I’ll show […]

During the Jan 26 Hoot, Yuval Kohavi dived into dives into how to perform rolling deployment upgrades without any downtime using Envoy and Kubernetes. If you missed the episode, you can watch a recording here:     On our next episode, watch Scott Weiss at the upcoming Hoot on February 9 where we discuss discuss […]

While the service mesh landscape has changed over the last few years, Istio has significantly grown in popularity. More and more organizations are running Istio in their production environments, and here at Solo.io we have been involved with many different organizations at various stages of their journey into production with Istio. One of the main […]

Extending Gloo Edge Made Easy Introduction Gloo Edge is a cloud-native API Gateway and Ingress Controller built on Envoy Proxy to facilitate and secure application traffic at the edge. When you implement Gloo Edge Enterprise, you can take advantage of a large number of features: you can easily transform your requests (headers, body, …), secure […]