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Aeraki Mesh: Layer-7 Management for Any Protocol

by Shriira Press

Aeraki Mesh is the CNCF framework that brings layer-7 traffic management to any protocol in a service mesh — extending Istio and Envoy to manage non-HTTP/gRPC protocols (Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, MQTT — even custom protocols via MetaProtocol) with the same rich features meshes provide for HTTP. This free book teaches it from the ground up: the non-HTTP protocol problem and what Aeraki is, service mesh and layer-7 concepts, Aeraki's architecture (extending Istio and Envoy), the protocol problem (why non-HTTP is hard), MetaProtocol (the generic L7 framework), protocol-aware traffic management (routing, canary, resilience, rate limiting), supported protocols (Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, Kafka, and more), observability and security (per-protocol metrics, tracing, mTLS, authorization), adding custom protocols (codecs), and using Aeraki in practice. Ten focused chapters with clear diagrams that make multi-protocol mesh management concrete — route by Dubbo method or Redis key, observe per-operation metrics, secure all traffic with mTLS, and bring even your own custom protocols into the mesh — making the service mesh protocol-complete.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Aeraki Mesh Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Service Mesh and Layer 7
4. 4Chapter 3 — Aeraki Mesh Architecture
5. 5Chapter 4 — The Protocol Problem
6. 6Chapter 5 — MetaProtocol
7. 7Chapter 6 — Protocol-Aware Traffic Management
8. 8Chapter 7 — Supported Protocols
9. 9Chapter 8 — Observability and Security
10. 10Chapter 9 — Adding Custom Protocols
11. 11Chapter 10 — Aeraki Mesh in Practice