osm

In my previous post AKS: Open Service Mesh & mTLS, I described how to deploy an AKS cluster with Open Service Mesh enabled, and how: Easy is to onboard applications onto the mesh by enabling automatic sidecar injection of Envoy proxy. OSM enables secure service to service communication. This time I’ll show you that Open Service Mesh (OSM) also provides a nice feature for controlling traffic between microservices: Traffic Access Control based on the SMI specifications.

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh, easy to install and configure and with features as mTLS to secure your microservice environments. Now that Open Service Mesh (OSM) integration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is GA (Check the announcement) I’ll show you not only to deploy it but also how to add your microservices to the mesh so communication between them is encrypted.