Aeraki Mesh: Layer-7 Management for Any Protocol
Shriira Press
Bring service mesh traffic management to any protocol. Manage Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, Kafka — even custom protocols — at layer 7, extending Istio to be protocol-complete.
Welcome to Aeraki Mesh: Layer-7 Management for Any Protocol.
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.
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