Open Service Mesh
Microsoft open source cloud native service mesh
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Open Service Mesh (OSM) was a free and open source cloud native service mesh developed by Microsoft[2] that ran on Kubernetes.[3][4]
| Open Service Mesh (OSM) | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Microsoft |
| Developer | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| Initial release | 2020 |
| Stable release | v1.2.4[1]
/ April 21, 2023 |
| Written in | Go |
| Platform | Unix-like |
| Type | Service mesh |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | openservicemesh |
| Repository | github |
Overview
OSM was written in the Go programming language and designed to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes.[5] The software was based on the Envoy proxy server and allowed users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.[6]
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub.[7] Microsoft donated OSM to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to ensure that it is community-led and has open governance.[5][8] On May 4, 2023, the project announced it would be archived, ending CNCF investment in the project so that its contributors could focus on Istio.[9]