Microsoft debuts Open Service Mesh

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Microsoft debuts Open Service Mesh
August 11, 2020
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-microsoft-debuts-mesh.html

Microsoft will turn over control of its new service mesh to a group specializing in cloud native open source software support.

The new service is called Open Service Mesh (OSM) and it is designed to assist companies with coordination of microservices. Such services are rapidly becoming popular in business circles, allowing developers to create smaller, simpler task-specific apps as part of larger operations. The individual apps can be modified and updated more quickly than if their services were part of a single huge operational program.

As Red Hat defined service mesh: "Like the open source project Istio, [a service mesh operation] is a way to control how different parts of an application share data with one another. Unlike other systems for managing this communication, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer built right into an app."
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Microsoft said OSM will be open source and management of its operations will soon be transferred to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

The move comes in the midst of controversy over mesh operations.
Google had earlier promised to move control of Istio to CNCF, but earlier this month instead transferred the trademark to Open Usage Commons, a group created by Google the same week.
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Microsoft's latest move is seen as a means of earning good will from alienated Istio users.
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Introducing Open Service Mesh

Open Service Mesh
Website (GitHub)

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh
OSM takes a simple approach for users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
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