Enterprise-Grade Service Mesh: A Reference Architecture with OpenShift, Istio, and Kong

Enterprise-Grade Service Mesh: A Reference Architecture with OpenShift, Istio, and Kong

May 13, 2024

This video explores how to integrate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Istio Service Mesh, and Kong Ingress Controller. It shows a reference architecture with Keycloak as the identity provider running on an OpenShift cluster with Istio service mesh, sample applications, and Kong Ingress Controller.

Three sample applications are showcased:

  • A canary release app with traffic routing between microservice versions.
  • The Bookinfo app with traffic management for different microservice versions, protected by OpenID Connect via Kong and Keycloak.
  • An e-commerce app with a multi-version sales microservice and a Redis-backed reviews microservice.

The video covers the OpenShift console, Kiali monitoring console, and Kong Konnect control plane console showing routes, plugins, analytics for the deployed applications. It highlights service meshes, traffic management, authentication, and monitoring capabilities for modern app deployments.