Introducing Gloo Mesh Core

Service mesh adoption has taken a significant leap forward with the introduction of Gloo Mesh Core by Solo.io.
Launched on November 1, 2023, Gloo Mesh Core will simplify enterprise adoption of service mesh by addressing the complexities associated with open source technologies like Istio and Cilium.
Drawing upon Solo.io’s extensive experience in building large-scale service mesh deployments for Fortune 500 companies, Gloo Mesh Core offers SLA-backed support, intuitive lifecycle management capabilities, and enhanced observability features, making it a game-changer for enterprise IT teams.

[@arozendojr]

Can you answer a question, is it possible to use jaeger + istio, for every request and response event of each microservice? automatic without changing microservice/pod code? How can I look for the configuration I should do?

[@neerajpoddar7559]

Hi Antonio, You're correct that you need to change the app code in order to propagate headers in order to make spans correlate to a trace as requests traverse through multiple microservices. With Istio that's the only change needed in the app (i.e. propagating 5-6 HTTP tracing related headers) and the Envoy proxies deployed as sidecars take care of creating root/child spans and dispatching them to the tracing backend system. Hope that answers your question.

[@zous89]

Hello, I would like to ask you, do you offer Gloo Mesh core as a free alternative to Gloo Mesh Enterprise offering or it is just a test bed?

[@soloio_inc]

Gloo Mesh Core is a fully supported commercial offering focused on helping users get the most out Istio. A comparison chart for Gloo Mesh Core and Gloo Mesh Enterprise can be found at www.solo.io/products/gloo-mesh/. You can get started with Gloo Mesh Core with a free trial: www.solo.io/free-trial/