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Tetrate Service Bridge 1.9

Introducing Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) version 1.9.0 – the newest advancement in application connectivity platforms. TSB remains at the forefront, offering a complete solution to effortlessly connect services across various Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, and bare-metal workloads, further refining the landscape of application connectivity.

Building upon the success of the 1.8 release, TSB 1.9.0 reaches a milestone by introducing the General Availability (GA) of UnifiedGateway by introducing a single Gateway resource for all use-cases like Ingress, Egress & EastWest and also introducing GA of IdentityPropagation by significant improvement in multi cluster access control policies and their rollout. This significant advancement enhances multi cluster connectivity, security, observability & network isolation for the enterprise applications. This not only streamlines administrative tasks but also facilitates scalable operations with unparalleled efficiency.

New Features and Improvements​

  • Identity Propagation Now GA:

    • Ability to rollout IdentityPropagation feature enablement in a multi cluster setup seamlessly without impacting existing security policies and live traffic.
    • Ability to configure multi cluster access control policies and validate the identity of each request through the gateway hops using internal WASM plugins.

  • UnifiedGateway now GA:

  • Priority based Multi-cluster Routing and Failover

    • Ability to configure traffic management, prioritizing local cluster traffic over locality-based load balancing and failover using topologyChoice for multi-cluster workloads.
    • Ability to enhance fault tolerance and resilience against regional failures by configuring global traffic distribution through defining fault domains using failoverPriority.

  • Flagger APIs Support in TSB:

    • Ability to configure TSB ServiceRoute API with FlaggerDestination to work in conjunction with Flagger Canary Resource.
    • Ability to delegate canary progressive delivery automation to Flagger via TSB ServiceRoute API.

  • Upstream Traffic Settings:

    • Ability to configure resiliency and loadBalancer settings for individual or group of services/hostnames.

  • Fault Injection:

    • Ability to configure faultInjection settings while forwarding HTTP requests to the destination specified in a route.

  • Traffic Mirroring:

    • Ability to configure http traffic mirroring to specify the destinations to mirror HTTP traffic in addition to the original destination.

  • Audit logs periodical cleanup:

    • Introduced AuditLogsCleanupRetention field in dataStore under the ManagementPlane resource spec, to periodically clean up audit logs older than the specified duration.

  • GitOps:

    • Ability to sync TSB configurations as kubernetes CRs asynchronously by enabling gitOps.
    • Ability to configure health checks to monitor the resource readiness while using FluxCD.

  • Embedded Elasticsearch & Postgres:

    • Starting from TSB version 1.9.0, Managementplane CR can be configured to use the embedded ES & Postgres which will be managed by TSB.

  • Multiple UI improvements: We have made several UI improvements to enhance user experience, including:

    • Enhanced Topology UI:
      • Introduced Refresh & Auto Refreshed buttons next to topology buttons for user interactions.
      • Introduced Zoom in/Zoom out control for better precision.
      • Re-positioned topology filter menu to the left panel to maximise use of screen real estate.
    • Enhanced Config Status UI: Improved overall debuggability of TSB config status and config propagation.

Additional Enhancement​

Refer to TSB 1.9 Release Notes for complete list of additional improvements in TSB 1.9

Get Started with Tetrate Service Bridge​

To get started with Tetrate Service Bridge:

Don't hesitate to reach out to your Tetrate support contact if you have any questions.