By Jason Bloomberg
This is the second part of a two-part series. Click here for part 1.
We’re looking forward to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s upcoming KubeCon conference in Europe in August and in Boston in November – but if you’re like me, you can’t wait.
It’s a good thing, therefore, that I interviewed the hottest vendors who would have exhibited at KubeCon last week. Here are the final half-dozen. (* Disclosure below.)
Aspen Mesh: Istio service mesh for the enterprise
Service meshes are an essential part of any Kubernetes deployment, as they abstract network traffic management among microservices while providing critical observability and security functions. Perhaps the most popular open-source service mesh at the present time is Istio.
Its popularity aside, Istio is still immature and, as with most open-source infrastructure technologies, it lacks the support, management and compliance features that enterprises require for production deployment.
Aspen Mesh fills these gaps with its enterprise deployment of Istio. The company offers a hardened distribution of Istio with a policy framework and a configuration and management dashboard.
Perhaps most important, Aspen Mesh ensures the deployed instances of Istio conform to the business intent of policies in the framework, an example of what I call intent-based computing.
(* Disclosure: Volterra is an Intellyx customer. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article is an Intellyx customer.)
Jason Bloomberg is founder and president of the analyst firm Intellyx, which advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives and helps suppliers communicate their agility stories. None of the organizations mentioned in this article is an Intellyx customer.
