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Review on Aspen Mesh by Brian Cruz
Awesome tool if looking out just one simple cross environment service communications
Easy install & configure with existing services like Prometheus or Grafana (or other monitoring tools). It has some limitations in terms of custom metrics but this can be overcome by using istios sidecar proxy feature which allows you to define your own metric namespaces. If we have multiple applications running then i would recommend going for aspens mesh instead of adding another software layer between them. We are solving our problem of exposing microservices APIs across different environments such that they all talk together seamlessly.
Pros
- The ease at installing it
- Able scale up/down without downtime as well while keeping service uptime intact.
- Service discovery is easy through Istio's config map mechanism, no need any additional configuration apart from defining one env label per application deployment environment e.g dev1 etc.It automatically routes traffic accordingly when accessing an app via its
Cons
- Not the best
