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Application Service Mesh
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Application Service Mesh (ASM) is a service mesh platform developed based on Istio. It seamlessly interconnects with Cloud Container Engine (CCE), an enterprise-level Kubernetes cluster service. With better usability, reliability, and visualization, ASM provides you with out-of-the-box features and enhanced user experience.

ASM is a non-intrusive microservice governance solution that provides full-lifecycle management and traffic management. It is compatible with the Kubernetes and Istio ecosystems and provides a wide range of features such as load balancing, outlier detection, and rate limiting. ASM provides diversified built-in grayscale releases, including canary release and blue-green deployment, enabling one-stop automatic release management.

For more about ASM, see :ref:`Introduction <asm_productdesc_0001>`.