Google announced Cloud Service Mesh, a fully managed service mesh across all Google Cloud platform types. The idea is to enable secure communication between microservices, allowing them to be composed into robust enterprise applications
Cloud Service Mesh takes the ’s control plane and Google’s open-source Istio-based service mesh, , and combines them into a single offering that provides the best of both worlds.
With Cloud Service Mesh, customers get:
Traffic Director control plane with global scale
Anthos Service Mesh compatibility
APIs (the most widely used open-source APIs for mesh in Kubernetes clusters)
Managed data plane for automatic upgrades of Envoy sidecars
GKE Fleet integration
Hosted certificate authorities for workload identity
Service Operations dashboard for service metrics
GCP APIs from Traffic Director for
Proxyless gRPC support
VMs
Cloud Run
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/introducing-cloud-service-mesh
