Mesh Manager

What is Mesh Manager?

Mesh Manager in Konnect allows you to create, manage, and view your Kong Mesh service meshes using the Konnect platform.

Key benefits of Mesh Manager:

• Kong-managed Global control plane: Kong handles the management of your Global control plane.
• Centralized view: See all your Services, control planes, and data plane proxies in one place.
• Multi-zone support: Deploy across Kubernetes, Universal environments, and multiple clouds.

Create a service mesh in Konnect

Mesh Manager follows a hierarchical control plane model to manage service mesh deployments across zones.

• Global control plane: Stores configuration and policies for all meshes.
• Zone control planes: Manage mesh networking and service traffic in their respective zones.
• Services: Connect to the zone control plane for inbound and outbound traffic control.

 
graph TD
  subgraph Konnect
      CP1[Global control plane]
  end
  subgraph Kong Mesh US control plane
      CP2[control plane]
  end

  S1[Service A]
  S2[Service B]
  S3[Service C]

  CP2 <--> CP1
  S1 <-->|Inbound/Outbound Traffic| CP2
  S2 <-->|Inbound/Outbound Traffic| CP2
  S3 <-->|Inbound/Outbound Traffic| CP2