Layer5 and HashiCorp Launch Service Mesh Partnership

AUSTIN, Texas - May 29, 2020 - PRLog -- Meshery Announces Native Support for Consul Service Mesh

Today, we are pleased to announce the technology partnership of Layer5 and HashiCorp. Layer5's Meshery, the service mesh management plane, and HashiCorp's Consul integrate to provide advanced, cloud native infrastructure solutions for containerized and non-containerized workloads - strengths of Consul. The marriage of these technologies forms a layering of network planes: data, control, and management.

Consul's broad and prevalent use across any runtime or infrastructure (bare metal servers, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and any cloud) is a key facilitator of the modernization of IT infrastructure - a significant attractant for Layer5 to focus on this integration; to meet customers where they're at. The lynchpin of the integration of Consul and Meshery is the Meshery Adapter for Consul. Through this adapter, Meshery facilitates lifecycle management of Consul service mesh deployments, evaluates and espouses configuration best practices published by HashiCorp. Meshery provides users with an interface to apply custom configuration to their Consul service mesh in an ad hoc fashion.

Lifecycle management of sample applications

The Meshery Adapter for Consul comes bundled with a handful of sample applications for evaluating, exploring, and learning how to operate Consul service mesh. Many operators are new to the ongoing administrative tasks of running a healthy and optimized Consul service mesh deployment. In advance of their production deployments, operators may utilize Meshery to quickly deploy Consul with sample applications to gain familiarity with the many features of Consul.

Demonstrated at DockerCon 2020, is the "Image Hub", a sample application built to allow users to explore Consul's feature set, and specifically, an experimental area of Consul's data plane: Envoy's impending support for WebAssembly.

Performance management of Consul and it's workloads

In order to assess the overall performance of the service mesh, and the overhead of individual, fine-grained traffic control mechanisms defined in Consul's control plane and enforced through Consul's intelligent data plane, Meshery provides users with statistical analysis of the responsiveness of their services and performance of the service mesh.

Meshery Announces Experimental Support for WebAssembly using Consul

Today, at DockerCon 2020, we demonstrate technology leadership in advanced data plane engineering for near-native performance of fine-grained traffic control facilitated by Meshery and Consul with the use of Envoy and WebAssembly. This integration of management, control, and data planes is a powerful combination. Learn more about service mesh planes in The Enterprise Path to Service Mesh Architectures. See Meshery and Consul in-action at DockerCon 2020. Learn more about Layer5 and HashiCorp's partnership (https://www.hashicorp.com/integrations/layer5-io/consul/).

About HashiCorp Consul
For more information about Consul, please visit: https://www.consul.io.

About Layer5 Meshery
For more information about Layer5, please visit https://layer5.io and for Meshery, please visit: https://meshery.io