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Kiali Integrations
1 - Kiali Backstage Plugin
The Kiali Backstage Plugin provides information about each Service Mesh object related with an entity in Backstage, a framework for building developer portals.
The plugin has different views to be included in Backstage:
- Added as cards to see resource lists
- Added as a tab which includes all the predefined Kiali cards
- Added as a page, which views are not going to be filtered by entities and offer a full Kiali view
The Kiali Backstage plugin is released as a technology preview in Red Hat Developer Hub.
Documentation
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2 - OSSM Console
OpenShift Service Mesh Console (OSSMC) is a dynamic plugin for OpenShift Console based on OpenShift dynamic plugins technology.
OSSMC lets you navigate multiple meshes from the OpenShift Console through Istios and Kialis pages — browse every Istio and Kiali instance on the cluster without requiring a Kiali server connected to the plugin. When a Kiali instance is connected and reachable, OSSMC also provides Kiali-powered observability — a dedicated Service Mesh navigation category with pages for overview, traffic graph, mesh infrastructure, namespaces, applications, services, workloads, and Istio configuration, plus Service Mesh tabs on OpenShift resource detail pages.
OSSMC was first released in September 2022 as a developer preview. It has since been released GA in October 2023.
Documentation
- Navigating Multiple Meshes with OSSMC — Istios and Kialis pages for multi-mesh inventory in the console
- User guide — Kiali-powered observability pages in the OpenShift Console
- Install via OSSMConsole CR