SMI Support for Multi-Cluster Operations
- Mentors
- Navendu Niranjan P, leecalcote
- Organization
- CNCF
Currently, SMI doesn’t provide connectivity over multiple Kubernetes clusters. It is becoming common for users of a service mesh to have more than one cluster.
What if Service Meshes could be connected with associated features like observability, control, and security, etc. even when they are being managed under different organizations.
This project focuses to provide the ability to discover traffic across different service meshes and authenticate it, where each mesh is in a different and untrusted administrative domain, where each mesh can be of the same or from different vendors, can have the same or different control and data plane implementations, be single or multi-cluster, and can provide the same or different functionality to its customers.
Extending multi-cluster capabilities mainly depends on two core features, which are required to provide the ability to discover traffic across different service meshes and authenticate it.
- Service Catalog Federation
- Identity Federation