Ensuring reliable operation of microservices is a challenging task. Metastable failures such as cascading overloads, retry storms, and death spirals cause services to enter a permanent state of failure that requires manual intervention to recover. Mitigation strategies like circuit breakers and auto-scaling fall short due to their narrow vantage points.

To operate microservices reliably, observability-driven automation is required. Aperture is an open-source load management system that leverages CNCF technologies such as etcd, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Open Policy Agent, and Istio/Envoy. It combines ideas from the world of observability, control systems, and network scheduling to automate service protection and workload prioritization.

Type of user that benefits from the offer:

• Infrastructure Teams
• Platform Teams
• Site Reliability Teams (SRE)