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.
Mesh architecture
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
