#Alauda Service Mesh v2.0

Alauda Service Mesh v2.0 is built on the Istio project and is installed using a new Istio Operator derived from the Sail Operator (hosted in the istio-ecosystem GitHub organization). The Operator provides an expanded set of custom resource definitions (CRDs) to manage Istio components.

#Supported component versions

• Istio version: v1.24.6 and v1.26.3
  • Istio 1.26 supports Kubernetes 1.29, 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, 1.33
  • Istio 1.24 supports Kubernetes 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.31
• Kiali operator version: v2.11.0

#Features

• Provides support for istioctl, the Istio command-line tool that offers diagnostic and debugging utilities.
• Support multi-cluster deployment models:
  • Multi-primary
  • Primary-remote
• Enables canary-style upgrades of the Istio control plane via the Istio revision mechanism.
• Support for the IstioRevisionTag resource — a stable revision tag that acts as an alias for Istio control plane revisions.
• Includes management for the Istio Container Network Interface through the IstioCNI CRD, which handles the CNI daemonset lifecycle.
• Metrics and tracing integrations
  • Monitoring components: Leverages Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics for metrics collection and Alertmanager for alerting.
  • Distributed Tracing Platform: Provides end-to-end distributed tracing capabilities using components such as Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
  • Alauda Build of Kiali: Offers visualization and operational insights into the service mesh, including real-time traffic topology, configuration validation, and tracing integration.