| Open Service Mesh (OSM) | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Original author | Microsoft |
| Developer | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| Initial release | 2020 |
| Stable release | v1.2.4 [1] / April 21, 2023 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Go |
| Platform | Unix-like |
| Type | Service mesh |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | openservicemesh |
Open Service Mesh (OSM) was a free and open source cloud native service mesh developed by Microsoft [2] that ran on Kubernetes. [3] [4]
OSM was written in the Go programming language and designed to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes. [5] The software was based on the Envoy proxy server and allowed users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments. [6]
The source code is licensed under MIT License and available on GitHub. [7] Microsoft donated OSM to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to ensure that it is community-led and has open governance. [5] [8] On May 4, 2023, the project announced it would be archived, ending CNCF investment in the project so that its contributors could focus on Istio. [9]