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Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh:Benefits

Last Updated:Jun 05, 2023

This topic describes the benefits of Service Mesh (ASM).

Ease of use

  • You can create a service mesh instance with simple operations in the ASM console.

  • You can upgrade a service mesh instance with simple operations in the ASM console.

  • You can define virtual services, destination rules, and the ingress gateway resources of Istio.

Rich features

Feature

Description

Fully managed

  • Allows you to install, deploy, and upgrade applications with simple operations.

  • Manages components of the control plane.

  • Allows you to focus on the development of business applications.

  • Is compatible with the specifications of the Istio community.

Traffic routing

  • Supports custom traffic routing rules.

  • Supports managing traffic between application services in multiple Kubernetes clusters.

  • Provides fine-grained traffic management.

  • Provides out-of-the-box fault recovery and adopts chaos engineering.

Security

  • Allows you to enable or disable mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) authentication for all services in a mesh.

  • Allows you to use mTLS authentication in different modes, such as the permissive mode and the strict mode.

  • Supports easy-to-use role-based access control (RBAC).

  • Allows you to connect third-party systems to it with simple operations.

Monitoring and diagnosis

  • Provides the mesh diagnosis feature.

  • Supports Tracing Analysis, Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS), and Log Service in a managed manner.

  • Provides end-to-end visibility.

  • Builds an ecosystem with multiple Alibaba Cloud services.

High stability

  • Builds a dedicated support team to guarantee the stability of managed services.

High availability

  • Provides various control plane specifications and service level agreements (SLAs) to meet different business requirements.

  • Supports multi-zone deployment.

Technical support

  • Manages the core components on the control plane to minimize O&M complexity.

  • Allows you to submit tickets for help.