Kong Mesh 2.2.0, now available in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, offers a service mesh solution that enhances networking flexibility and centralizes control across various environments, including VMs and cloud-native workloads like Red Hat OpenShift. By integrating with Red Hat OpenShift, Kong Mesh supports hybrid cloud deployments, easing the complexity of managing diverse platforms and workloads. It allows for seamless communication between zones, enabling microservices to function without awareness of underlying infrastructure differences, and supports multiple business units through multi-tenancy. The use of Kong Mesh facilitates modernization and migration of workloads from on-prem to cloud environments, providing traffic management capabilities to gradually deprecate legacy systems. Additionally, it supports high availability for cloud regions, ensuring operational continuity even during regional outages. The post includes a tutorial on deploying Kong Mesh in Standalone Mode on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, showcasing its potential to unify on-prem and cloud workloads effectively and aid in modernization strategies.