Before you can install Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh, you must subscribe to OpenShift Dedicated and install OpenShift Dedicated in a supported configuration.
Maintain an active OpenShift Dedicated subscription on your Red Hat account. If you do not have a subscription, contact your sales representative for more information.
Install the version of the OpenShift Dedicated command line utility (the oc
client tool) that matches your OpenShift Dedicated version and add it to your path.
For additional information about Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh lifecycle and supported platforms, refer to the Support Policy.
The following configurations are supported for the current release of Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh.
The Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh Operator supports multiple versions of the serviceMeshControlPlane
resource. Version 2.6 service Mesh control planes are supported on the following platform versions:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.10 or later
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated version 4
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) version 4
Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS (ROSA)
Explicitly unsupported cases include:
OpenShift Online is not supported for Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh.
Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh does not support the management of microservices outside the cluster where service Mesh is running.
Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh supports the following network configurations.
OpenShift-SDN
OVN-Kubernetes is available on all supported versions of OpenShift Dedicated.
Third-Party Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins that have been certified on OpenShift Dedicated and passed service Mesh conformance testing. See Certified OpenShift CNI Plug-ins for more information.
This release of Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh is only available on OpenShift Dedicated x86_64, IBM Z®, and IBM Power®.
IBM Z® is only supported on OpenShift Dedicated 4.10 and later.
IBM Power® is only supported on OpenShift Dedicated 4.10 and later.
Configurations where all service Mesh components are contained within a single OpenShift Dedicated cluster.
Configurations that do not integrate external services such as virtual machines.
Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh does not support EnvoyFilter
configuration except where explicitly documented.
The Kiali console is only supported on the two most recent releases of the Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari browsers.
The openshift
authentication strategy is the only supported authentication configuration when Kiali is deployed with Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh (OSSM). The openshift
strategy controls access based on the individual’s role-based access control (RBAC) roles of the OpenShift Dedicated.
Install Red Hat OpenShift service Mesh in your OpenShift Dedicated environment.