AWS App Mesh vs Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines

AWS App Mesh is a managed service for visibility and traffic control between services. It uses the open source Envoy proxy to handle traffic into and out of service containers, and can change routes between services without application-code changes. Proxies balance client traffic and adjust endpoints using health checks and service registration. App Mesh provides metrics and logs for service hops, and can collect traces to help visualize service API calls. It works with AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2 and Kubernetes on EC2. Mutual TLS verifies service identities using certificates from AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority or a customer-managed certificate authority. Listed integrations include Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray, plus tools such as Datadog, HashiCorp and Sysdig. There is no additional charge for App Mesh itself, but proxy-consumed AWS resources are billed separately. AWS states support ends on September 30, 2026; after that, the console and App Mesh resources will no longer be accessible. API clients must support TLS 1.2; AWS recommends TLS 1.3.

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines automates application delivery on Red Hat OpenShift using a cloud-native CI/CD system built on Tekton. Pipelines are defined with Kubernetes resources and standard Tekton custom resource definitions, supporting portable pipeline definitions. Runs execute with their dependencies in isolated containers and can scale on demand, a fit for decentralized teams working with microservice-based architectures. The OpenShift Developer console can create Tekton resources, show run logs and manage pipelines in namespaces. Documented image-building tools include Source-to-Image, Buildah, Buildpacks and Kaniko. Red Hat lists integrations with Tekton Pipelines, Tekton Triggers, Tekton Chains, Tekton Results and OpenShift GitOps. Pipelines as Code supports versioned, auditable workflows aligned with GitOps practices. Red Hat describes hardened security and a Trusted Supply Chain framework intended to help ensure integrity and conform with SLSA levels. The product is available with a Red Hat OpenShift subscription and included in OpenShift Container Platform. The documented CI/CD system runs on OpenShift Container Platform. Pricing is on request; the Developer Sandbox offers a 30-day trial.