A10 Networks Introduces Multi-Cloud Secure Service Mesh Solution for Applications Deployed in Kubernetes
December 11 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Integrated security, analytics and elastic load
balancing is now available for traffic to and between
microservices
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), a provider of intelligent and
automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced availability of
the A10 Secure Service Mesh solution for applications deployed in
open-source Kubernetes container environments. The solution
provides teams deploying microservices applications with an easy,
automated way to integrate enterprise-grade security and
load-balancing with comprehensive application visibility and
analytics.
A10’s Secure Service Mesh is the first solution of its kind to
protect east-west traffic and transparently encrypt traffic between
microservices without requiring changes to those applications. The
result is a higher level of security and performance for
microservices-based applications.
“With the Secure Service Mesh solution, A10 continues to deliver
on its promise of intelligent automation and security for both
modern multi-cloud and traditional infrastructure,” said Lee Chen,
Founder and CEO of A10 Networks. “Organizations are turning to
containers for their production applications to become agile and
scalable in meeting the demands of digital transformation. The A10
Secure Service Mesh is a significant advancement for these
environments.”
A10 Lightning ADC, a containerized and lightweight load balancer
and proxy, is the primary component providing load balancing and
security capabilities. It works in an active-active cluster which
is elastic and scales up/down automatically with the scale of a
Kubernetes cluster. The same Lightning ADC cluster can be used for
both North-South as well as East-West traffic.
“While Kubernetes addresses challenges relating to application
build and deployment, organizations still face the daunting and
often time-consuming challenge of reliably delivering runtime
security and performance assurance in containerized microservices
environments that will only become more complex as they grow.” said
Brad Casemore, Vice President of Research for Datacenter Networks,
IDC. “A10 Networks understands the considerable value that its
customers can derive from microservices, and that is why it has
extended its portfolio with the Secure Service Mesh, providing
application traffic-management capabilities that address the need
for heightened security while reducing the operational burden on
application teams deploying runtime Kubernetes applications.”
The security solution between microservices includes enforcing
micro-segmentation policies for traffic between the services. The
system can also automatically encrypt traffic between services,
further increasing the privacy and security of those
communications. Additional security capabilities include
rate-limiting application traffic to each service, application DDoS
and SSL/TLS offload.
The Secure Services Mesh solution includes the A10 Harmony
controller, which provides multi-cloud, centralized policy
management and also comprehensive metrics, logs and analytics
providing actionable insights for each microservice. These
analytics include end-to-end transaction latency, throughput,
request rate, and other real-time and historical metrics.
Traffic management capabilities in the A10 Secure Services Mesh
include automatic service discovery, health monitoring, load
balancing, URL/content switching, and support for Blue-Green or
Canary deployments.
None of these capabilities requires any change to the actual
applications and can be completely automated under the control of
the operations teams. This lowers the operational burden as the
microservices applications scale in usage and complexity. The A10
Secure Services Mesh solution is tightly integrated with container
management systems like Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
“For applications deployed in a Kubernetes environment,
east-west traffic security is a prime concern,” said Kamal Anand,
Vice President of Cloud, A10 Networks. “The A10 Secure Service Mesh
elegantly addresses security concerns without imposing any specific
deployment model or requiring any changes to applications.
Per-service, application-layer traffic analytics greatly help
operations teams to optimize the application as well as
infrastructure and enhance the security and delivery of their
application.”
About A10 Networks
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) is a provider of intelligent and
automated cybersecurity solutions, providing a portfolio of
high-performance secure application solutions that enable
intelligent automation with machine learning to ensure business
critical applications are secure and always available. Founded in
2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif., and serves
customers in more than 80 countries with offices worldwide. For
more information, visit: www.a10networks.com and @A10Networks.
The A10 logo, A10 Networks, A10 Lightning and A10 Harmony are
trademarks or registered trademarks of A10 Networks, Inc. in the
United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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