Want to observe a service mesh that extends to virtual machines? A new analyzer in Apache SkyWalking — the application monitoring (APM) system designed especially for microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures — leverages Envoy’s metadata exchange mechanism to work in Kubernetes, VM or hybrid environments.
In a previous article, we talked about observability of service mesh in a Kubernetes environment and applied it to the bookinfo application in practice. But in that scenario, in order to map IP addresses to services, SkyWalking would need access to service metadata from a Kubernetes cluster — which is not available for services deployed in VMs. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how SkyWalking’s new analyzer can give you better observability of a mesh that includes virtual machines.