Enterprise infrastructure environments are becoming increasingly complex. Clusters are distributed across multiple environments, and operators need to navigate inconsistent policies whilst managing mounting pressure to maintain the reliability of workloads. Leading to resource-constrained teams that have difficulty balancing routine maintenance tasks alongside optimization goals, ultimately slowing down innovation.
At Solo, we’ve been partnering closely with our customers to help them address these challenges head-on, delivering tools and features that are designed to reduce operational friction, provide stronger governance and control to enable teams to manage and scale their service mesh and cloud infrastructure with confidence.
We continue our customer-centric approach to releases in Gloo Mesh 2.11, focusing on simplifying service mesh operations with new enhanced multi-tenancy capabilities and operational improvements. Designed to give platform and IT teams streamlined administration and control alongside greater flexibility as their workloads grow and evolve.
Key highlights include:
- Introduction of ‘Segments’, a new concept that groups clusters to enable teams to apply policies uniformly without impacting other segments.
- Expanded AWS ECS support that provides users with the ability to extend Gloo Mesh to multi-cluster ECS deployments across multiple AWS accounts.
- New Traffic-Draining Feature and Simplified Global Services are designed to streamline cluster operations from maintenance to multi-cluster setup.
What’s New in Gloo Mesh 2.11
Introducing Segments for Multi-Tenancy
As enterprises grow, infrastructure sprawl is making it increasingly challenging for technical teams to manage and scale service mesh environments securely. Gloo Mesh 2.11 addresses this with Segments, a new concept designed to enable effective multi-tenancy across clusters.
Segments provide logical groupings of clusters, allowing teams to apply policies uniformly within their boundaries without affecting others. Each business unit or acquired cluster retains isolated governance and policies while still operating within a unified global mesh.
By enabling secure, controlled communication between segments, Gloo Mesh preserves team autonomy while delivering the operational separation and policy independence enterprises need to scale efficiently and manage complex, multi-tenant environments.
Expanded ECS and Multi-AWS Account Support
Gloo Mesh 2.11 expands support to include AWS ECS, enabling enterprises to extend their mesh across multi-cluster ECS deployments and multiple AWS accounts. This feature brings external workloads into the mesh unifying connectivity pathways between ECS clusters, ECS and EKS, and across any AWS accounts, refining the integration experience between Gloo Mesh and AWS.
In addition, the new integration enables mesh features including mTLS and observability, to be available in ECS workloads and provides a reliable pathway for AWS App Mesh users to migrate their workloads to Gloo Mesh ahead of the planned deprecation of App Mesh in 2026.
Optimizing Mesh Operations with New Features
Maintaining operational efficiency remains a challenge for platform teams as infrastructure demands grow exponentially. In Gloo Mesh 2.11 we introduce traffic-draining and upgraded global services labelling to help simplify the administrative workflows required to maintain meshes.
The new traffic-draining feature enables platform teams to safely drain traffic, perform upgrades, and return clusters to rotation with minimal disruption, helping users reduce friction as they maintain large, distributed environments and ensuring uptime and reliability.
We’ve also optimized global service creation for users. By labeling a namespace, users can now see that all services in that namespace automatically become global. This simplifies multi-cluster configurations, ensures consistent policies across environments, and enables enterprises to scale operations quickly while maintaining control, visibility, and reliability across their mesh.
Learn more about Gloo Mesh 2.11
For additional technical features details, examples, and upgrade information on this release, please visit the Gloo Mesh release notes.
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