Enable application teams to focus on the application logic and SRE teams to independently control the security and management features in production.

Gain automated introspection and control: observe and scale your services, derisk upgrades, find root causes and monitor Service Level Objectives.

Leverage a production-grade Istio distribution with 24/7 expert support, high availability, designed for seamless deployment on complex topologies.

Backyards takes the pain out of Istio by offering great UX from installation and mesh management to runtime diagnostics

• Operator based Istio management
• Enhanced functionality in Istio components, but fully compatible with upstream
• No new abstraction layer on top of Istio configuration
• A full featured CLI tool
• An intuitive and easy to use UI
• Designed for enterprise users, with commercial support

Gain insight into the operation of your services through an advanced Web UI

• Service topology with real-time metrics
• Drill-down view lets you analyze metrics in context
• Monitor communications with services that are external to your mesh
• One-click access to Grafana dashboards

Root cause diagnostics that help to efficiently isolate and solve operational issues related to your services

• Real-time trace of inter-service traffic through the Tap view
• Service mesh configuration and cluster state validation
• Drill-down view to analyze metrics in context
• One-click access to Jaeger distributed traces

Easily manage Istio service configuration through the Backyards UI and CLI

• Routing, circuit breaking, fault injection
• Push-button deployment and management of the service mesh in single- and multi-cluster configurations
• Managing service-updates using automated, industry-standard upgrade strategies, like canary releases
• Ingress and egress gateway management

Monitor and manage your hybrid multi-cloud service infrastructure from a single pane of glass

• Easily attach and detach clusters using the CLI, take advantage of enhanced multi-cluster telemetry
• Choose the mesh topology that is the best fit for your use-cases
• Automatic locality load balancing in multi-cluster configurations

Easily secure your services through industry standard authorization and authentication practices

• Automatically secured communication channels between service components: advanced mTLS configurations per service, per namespace or cluster-wide
• Built-in auditing: all mesh configuration changes are tracked for accountability and diagnostics
• Seamless Kubernetes-native RBAC authentication