IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh

Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it. If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.

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It is only a necessity if teams are planning to migrate between clouds and need a transitional setup. A single cloud/all on-prem setup won't need the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh.

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• Layers transparently onto existing applications
• Allows control of access and rules to be developed
• Creates metrics for usage

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• Optimal application uptime, as applications stay up even when they're migrating between clouds or from on prem to cloud
• Standard dashboard allows us a holistic view of our applications and their status without needing dedicated cloud support staff
• Connecting markedly different applications with differing tech stacks and layers has become easy because of the application centricity of this SaaS

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• Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
• Better technical user guidance.

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• Yet to implement network latency management, to help avoid overcrowding of requests at a single point
• It doesn't exactly 'integrate' with the separate cloud systems, which often leads to knowledge gaps
• Proactive monitoring is something that requires further focus

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Training and usage support available

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• It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
• One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
• It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
• It reduced the number of labor hours.

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• Thanks to IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, application downtime during migration of our applications has been minimized, leading to hundreds of thousands of dollars of daily cost savings
• A great deal of manpower is saved because no cloud support is needed to support the different cloud structures
• The team also sees performance improvement due to the application centric approach of the product

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