Gloo Mesh has established itself as the trusted service mesh solution for global organizations seeking to secure, connect, and centrally manage their cloud services across distributed applications at scale.
Whether enabling financial institutions to process vast amounts of data securely across their data centers or ensuring seamless point-of-sale operations for fast food providers during peak hours, Gloo Mesh has become the go-to enterprise service mesh due to its unmatched reliability, usability, and performance. As it continues to evolve, Gloo Mesh is setting new industry benchmarks—simplifying multi-cluster operations and pushing scalability to new heights, including support for 100 million pods.
Today, we are excited to introduce Gloo Mesh 2.7. In this latest release, we have focused on scaling multi-cluster networking, developing a new redesigned intuitive user experience to simplify the service mesh experience with the following features:
- Production support for Istio v1.24 and Istio v1.25
- Peer-based multi-cluster support for Istio workloads, including Ambient and Sidecar modes
- Redesigned intuitive user experience complete with new user interface, dashboard, and service graph for enhanced observability
Production-Ready Istio Ambient Support with Multi-Cluster Support
With the 2.7 release, Gloo Mesh brings production-ready support for Istio v1.24 and will fully support v1.25 shortly after Istio’s upstream release is live. This release ensures that Istio’s Ambient mode remains at the forefront of innovation, delivering cost savings and simplified operations by eliminating sidecar proxies.
Additionally, Gloo Mesh enhances Ambient mode with seamless multi-cluster support, allowing organizations to extend service connectivity beyond individual clusters with minimal operational overhead.
Gloo Mesh’s New Peer-Based Multi-Cluster Support for Istio
Gloo Mesh 2.7 introduces an innovative peer-based multi-cluster architecture, supporting both Istio’s Ambient and Sidecar modes. With this new peering model, users can establish multi-cluster service routing without a centralized management plane by utilizing global services and east-west gateways for inter-cluster communication.
This architecture enables organizations to scale massively distributed environments, supporting tens of thousands of clusters and millions of workloads. Whether adopting Ambient mode for lightweight networking or using traditional sidecars, Gloo Mesh now offers unparalleled flexibility for global-scale networking.
Redesigned User Experience with a New Dashboard and Service Graph
Troubleshooting and managing service mesh deployments just got easier. Gloo Mesh 2.7 introduces a redesigned user interface, dashboard, and service graph, providing:
- Real-time workload insights – Quickly identify service health and traffic patterns.
- Intuitive troubleshooting tools – Triage issues faster with detailed traffic flows and error detection.
- Enhanced configuration visibility – Understand how services and policies interact across clusters.
With these updates, platform teams and developers can reduce the time spent diagnosing issues, improving productivity and operational efficiency.
Advanced API Gateway at Ingress with a tighter integration between Gloo Gateway and Gloo Mesh.
As part of the Gloo Mesh 2.7 release, Gloo Mesh strengthens integration with Gloo Gateway.
- Users can now manage and visualize all Gloo Mesh and Gloo Gateway configurations and traffic from a single pane of glass, improving connectivity workflows
- Gloo Gateway can now route to multi-cluster services via a Gloo Mesh Virtual Destination, streamlining cross-cluster connectivity.
This integration of Gloo Mesh and Gloo Gateway is a key component to our path to building an omni-directional gateway designed to help users gain operational velocity, simplify their cluster’s traffic and network, and use advanced traffic at ingress, in between services and at egress. Coming soon in Gloo Gateway 1.19, we’re enabling gateway capabilities across three traffic pathways.
- Ingress Traffic: Route to Global services through east-west gateways
- East-West Traffic: Users can access advanced policies for traffic management across Kubernetes services and replacement for Istio EnvoyFilters, enabling easier configuration and maintenance of east-west policies
- Egress Traffic: Users can implement advanced egress policies and utilize Gloo AI Gateway to define egress policies
Gloo Operator simplifies Istio deployment and maintenance
We’re excited to announce Gloo Operator, a new Kubernetes Operator built by the Solo team, will be available starting with Istio 1.25. This feature has been designed to drastically simplify the installation and upgrade of Gloo Gateway and Istio (including sidecar and Ambient mode) through the control plane and extensions. Gloo Operator will also provide full lifecycle management and observability for Istio workloads.
Get Started with Gloo Mesh 2.7
You can start testing the new features of Gloo Mesh 2.7 now! For more information about Gloo Mesh including examples, in-depth feature details, and upgrade information, check out the Gloo Mesh release notes.
