How to get started with Tanzu Service Mesh
Tanzu Service Mesh consists of controllers that install into your Kubernetes clusters as well as a central SaaS global control plane. The SaaS control plane does a few things:
- Manages installation of Tanzu Service Mesh components onto Kubernetes clusters
- Automatically updates those components as necessary
- Sends global configuration down to those controllers (for example, the location of services on other clusters)
- Manages and deploys policies on the Kubernetes clusters
- Gathers metrics to enable visualization and SLOs
To get started with Tanzu Service Mesh, let’s log into our VMware Cloud Services Console and select the Tanzu Service Mesh tile from the list of services.
Important note
Tanzu Service Mesh is the one product in this book that’s neither free to use nor provides a self-service avenue to enable a trial. If you don’t currently have a license for Tanzu Service Mesh, you’...
