Kong Mesh 2.7: Leveling Up Usability and Security
Kong Mesh 2.7 is here! And with it come a slew of new features to make our simple and powerful enterprise service mesh even easier to use and more powerful for your particular needs.
In this blog post, we'll cover the new features and show how Kong Mesh 2.7 can deliver a superior service mesh experience for your organization.
In 2.6, we added support for metrics in our policies with MeshMetric. In 2.7, we reinforced this support with improvements to the OTLP backend.
We’ve also listened to our users who were asking for a smaller set of metrics to be exposed by default. This is achieved with profiles, which by default hides some metrics. You can always use targeted policies to get more metrics during troubleshooting. This gives you the best balance between insights and cost management.
Since version 2.6.0, we've recommended users migrate to targetRef policies. Up until now, it was a little hard to understand what impact a policy has before rolling it out. With Kong Mesh 2.7, you can now use shadow policies to see how your proxy configuration may change before taking effect. This is easily done by simply labeling policies with kuma.io/effect: shadow.
