Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a

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service mesh In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy. A dedicated communication layer can provide a number of benefits, s ...

developed by

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that runs on

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Overview

OSM is 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. The software is based on the

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and allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments. The source code is licensed under

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and available on

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. Microsoft plans to donate OSM to the

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to ensure that it is community-led and has

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GitHub - openservicemesh/osm
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