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What is Enterprise Service Mesh?
A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages the communication between microservices within a distributed application. It provides features such as load balancing, service discovery, traffic routing, security (such as encryption and authentication), and observability (monitoring and logging) without requiring changes to the application code. Service meshes are typically used in microservices architectures to ensure that services can communicate efficiently and securely across a network. They help with managing complex communication patterns, ensuring reliable and secure service-to-service interactions, and providing valuable insights into the health and performance of the services. Service meshes are often integrated with container orchestration platforms. Compare and read user reviews of the best Enterprise Service Mesh currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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VMware Avi Load Balancer
Broadcom
Simplify application delivery with software-defined load balancers, web application firewall, and container ingress services for any application in any data center and cloud. Simplify administration with centralized policies and operational consistency across on-premises data centers, and hybrid and public clouds, including VMware Cloud (VMC on AWS, OCVS, AVS, GCVE), AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle Cloud. Free infrastructure teams from manual tasks and enable DevOps teams with self-service. Application delivery automation toolkits include Python SDK, RESTful APIs, Ansible and Terraform integrations. Gain unprecedented insights, including network, end users and security, with real-time application performance monitoring, closed-loop analytics and deep machine learning. -
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Istio
Istio
Connect, secure, control, and observe services. Istio’s traffic routing rules let you easily control the flow of traffic and API calls between services. Istio simplifies configuration of service-level properties like circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries, and makes it easy to set up important tasks like A/B testing, canary rollouts, and staged rollouts with percentage-based traffic splits. It also provides out-of-box failure recovery features that help make your application more robust against failures of dependent services or the network. Istio Security provides a comprehensive security solution to solve these issues. This page gives an overview on how you can use Istio security features to secure your services, wherever you run them. In particular, Istio security mitigates both insider and external threats against your data, endpoints, communication, and platform. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all service communications within a mesh. -
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Kong Mesh
Kong
Enterprise service mesh based on Kuma for multi-cloud and multi-cluster on both Kubernetes and VMs. Deploy with a single command. Connect to other services automatically with built-in service discovery, including an Ingress resource and remote CPs. Support across any environment, including multi-cluster, multi-cloud and multi-platform on both Kubernetes and VMs. Accelerate initiatives like zero-trust and GDPR with native mesh policies, improving the speed and efficiency of every application team. Deploy a single control plane that can scale horizontally to many data planes, or support multiple clusters or even hybrid service meshes running on both Kubernetes and VMs combined. Simplify cross-zone communication using an Envoy-based ingress deployment on both Kubernetes and VMs, as well as the built-in DNS resolver for service-to-service communication. Built on top of Envoy with 50+ observability charts out of the box, you can collect metrics, traces, and logs of all L4-L7 traffic.Starting Price: $250 per month -
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Network Service Mesh
Network Service Mesh
A common flat vL3 domain allowing DBs running in multiple clusters/clouds/hybrid to communicate just with each other for DB replication. Workloads from multiple companies connecting to a single ‘collaborative’ Service Mesh for cross company interactions. Each workload has a single option of what connectivity domain to be connected to, and only workloads in a given runtime domain could be part of its connectivity domain. In short: Connectivity Domains are Strongly Coupled to Runtime Domains. A central tenant of Cloud Native is Loose Coupling. In a Loosely Coupled system, the ability for each workload to receive service from alternative providers is preserved. What Runtime Domain a workload is running in is a non-sequitur to its communications needs. Workloads that are part of the same App need Connectivity between each other no matter where they are running.Starting Price: Free -
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HashiCorp Consul
HashiCorp
A multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Real-time health and location information of all services. Progressive delivery and zero trust security with less overhead. Receive peace of mind that all HCP connections are secured out of the box. Gain insight into service health and performance metrics with built-in visualization directly in the Consul UI or by exporting metrics to a third-party solution. Many modern applications have migrated towards decentralized architectures as opposed to traditional monolithic architectures. This is especially true with microservices. Since applications are composed of many inter-dependent services, there's a need to have a topological view of the services and their dependencies. Furthermore, there is a desire to have insight into health and performance metrics for the different services. -
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Toil-free traffic management for your service mesh. Service mesh is a powerful abstraction that's become increasingly popular to deliver microservices and modern applications. In a service mesh, the service mesh data plane, with service proxies like Envoy, moves the traffic around and the service mesh control plane provides policy, configuration, and intelligence to these service proxies. Traffic Director is GCP's fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh. With Traffic Director, you can easily deploy global load balancing across clusters and VM instances in multiple regions, offload health checking from service proxies, and configure sophisticated traffic control policies. Traffic Director uses open xDSv2 APIs to communicate with the service proxies in the data plane, which ensures that you are not locked into a proprietary interface.
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ServiceStage
Huawei Cloud
Deploys your applications using containers, VMs, or serverless, and easily implements auto scaling, performance analysis, and fault diagnosis. Supports native Spring Cloud and Dubbo frameworks and Service Mesh, provides all-scenario capabilities, and supports mainstream languages such as Java, Go, PHP, Node.js, and Python. Supports cloud-native transformation of Huawei core services, meeting strict performance, usability, and security compliance requirements. Development frameworks, running environments, and common components are available for web, microservice, mobile, and AI applications. Full management of applications throughout the entire process, including deployment and upgrade. Monitoring, events, alarms, logs, and tracing diagnosis, and built-in AI capabilities, making O&M easy. Creates a flexibly customizable application delivery pipeline with only a few clicks.Starting Price: $0.03 per hour-instance -
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The always-free NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise‑grade solution. Take control of Kubernetes with NGINX Service Mesh, featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration. The real star of NGINX Service Mesh is the fully integrated, high-performance data plane. Leveraging the power of NGINX Plus to operate highly available and scalable containerized environments, our data plane brings a level of enterprise traffic management, performance, and scalability to the market that no other sidecars can offer. It provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.
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Apache ServiceComb
ServiceComb
Open-source, full-stack microservice solution. With out-of-the-box, high performance, compatible with popular ecology, and multi-language support. Service contract guarantee based on OpenAPI. One-click scaffolding, out of the box, speeds up the building of microservice applications. The ecological extension supports multiple development languages such as Java/Golang/PHP/NodeJS. Apache ServiceComb is an open-source solution for microservices. It consists of multiple components that can be flexibly adapted to different scenarios through the combination of components. This guide can help you get started quickly with Apache ServiceComb, which is the best place to start trying for first-time users. To decouple the programming and communication models, so that a programming model can be combined with any communication models as needed. Application developers only need to focus on APIs during development and can flexibly switch communication models during deployment.Starting Price: Free -
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Gloo Mesh
Solo.io
Today's Kubernetes environments need help in scaling, securing and observing modern cloud-native applications. Gloo Mesh, based on the industry's leading Istio service mesh, simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster management of service mesh for containers and virtual machines. Gloo Mesh helps platform engineering teams to reduce costs, reduce risks, and improve application agility. Gloo Mesh is a modular component of Gloo Platform. The service mesh allows for application-aware network tasks to be managed independently from the application, adding observability, security, and reliability to distributed applications. By introducing the service mesh to your applications, you can: Simplify the application layer Provide more insights into your traffic Increase the security of your application -
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Netmaker
Netmaker
Netmaker is an open source tool based on the groundbreaking WireGuard protocol. Netmaker unifies distributed environments with ease, from multi-cloud to Kubernetes. Netmaker enhances Kubernetes clusters by providing flexible and secure networking for cross-environment scenarios. Netmaker uses WireGuard for modern, secure encryption. It is built with zero trust in mind, utilizes access control lists, and follows leading industry standards for secure networking. Netmaker enables you to create relays, gateways, full VPN meshes, and even zero trust networks. Netmaker is fully configurable to let you maximize the power of Wireguard. -
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Traefik Mesh
Traefik Labs
Traefik Mesh is a straight-forward, easy to configure, and non-invasive service mesh that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster. By improving monitoring, logging, and visibility, as well as implementing access controls. Allows administrators to increase the security of their clusters easily and quickly. By being able to monitor and trace how applications communicate in your Kubernetes cluster, administrators are able to optimize internal communications, and improve application performance. Reducing the time to learn, install, and configure makes it easier to implement, and to provide value for the time actually spent implementing. Administrators can focus on their business applications. Being open source means that there is no vendor lock-in, as Traefik Mesh is opt-in by design. -
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AWS App Mesh
Amazon Web Services
AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to facilitate communication between your services across various types of computing infrastructure. App Mesh offers comprehensive visibility and high availability for your applications. Modern applications are generally made up of multiple services. Each service can be developed using various types of compute infrastructure, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate. As the number of services within an application grows, it becomes difficult to pinpoint the exact location of errors, redirect traffic after errors, and safely implement code changes. Previously, this required creating monitoring and control logic directly in your code and redeploying your services every time there were changes.Starting Price: Free -
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ARMO
ARMO
ARMO provides total security for in-house workloads and data. Our patent-pending technology prevents breaches and protects against security overhead regardless of your environment, cloud-native, hybrid, or legacy. ARMO protects every microservice and protects it uniquely. We do this by creating a cryptographic code DNA-based workload identity, analyzing each application’s unique code signature, to deliver an individualized and secure identity to every workload instance. To prevent hacking, we establish and maintain trusted security anchors in the protected software memory throughout the application execution lifecycle. Stealth coding-based technology blocks all attempts at reverse engineering of the protection code and ensures comprehensive protection of secrets and encryption keys while in-use. Our keys are never exposed and thus cannot be stolen. -
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Envoy
Envoy Proxy
As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application. Envoy is a self contained, high performance server with a small memory footprint. It runs alongside any application language or framework. Envoy supports advanced load balancing features including automatic retries, circuit breaking, global rate limiting, request shadowing, zone local load balancing, etc. Envoy provides robust APIs for dynamically managing its configuration. -
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Istio is an open technology that provides a way for developers to seamlessly connect, manage and secure networks of different microservices — regardless of platform, source or vendor. Istio is currently one of the fastest-growing open-source projects based on Github contributors, and its strength is its community. IBM is proud to be a founder and contributor of the Istio project and a leader of Istio Working Groups. Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is offered as a managed add-on that integrates Istio directly with your Kubernetes cluster. A single click deploys a tuned, production-ready Istio instance on your IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster. A single click runs Istio core components and tracing, monitoring and visualization tools. IBM Cloud updates all Istio components and manages the control-plane component's lifecycle.
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Kiali
Kiali
Kiali is a management console for Istio service mesh. Kiali can be quickly installed as an Istio add-on or trusted as a part of your production environment. Using Kiali wizards to generate application and request routing configuration. Kiali provides Actions to create, update and delete Istio configuration, driven by wizards. Kiali offers a robust set of service actions, with accompanying wizards. Kiali provides a list and detailed views for your mesh components. Kiali provides filtered list views of all your service mesh definitions. Each view provides health, details, YAML definitions and links to help you visualize your mesh. Overview is the default Tab for any detail page. The overview tab provides detailed information, including health status, and a detailed mini-graph of the current traffic involving the component. The full set of tabs, as well as the detailed information, varies based on the component type. -
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KubeSphere
KubeSphere
KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem. KubeSphere is also a multi-tenant enterprise-grade open-source Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated IT operations and streamlined DevOps workflows. It provides developer-friendly wizard web UI, helping enterprises to build out a more robust and feature-rich Kubernetes platform, which includes the most common functionalities needed for enterprise Kubernetes strategies. A CNCF-certified Kubernetes platform, 100% open-source, built and improved by the community. Can be deployed on an existing Kubernetes cluster or Linux machines, supports the online and air-gapped installation. Deliver DevOps, service mesh, observability, application management, multi-tenancy, storage, and networking management in a unified platform. -
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Tetrate
Tetrate
Connect and manage applications across clusters, clouds, and data centers. Coordinate app connectivity across heterogeneous infrastructure from a single management plane. Integrate traditional workloads into your cloud-native application infrastructure. Create tenants within your business to define fine-grained access control and editing rights for teams on shared infrastructure. Audit the history of changes to services and shared resources from day zero. Automate traffic shifting across failure domains before your customers notice. TSB sits at the application edge, at cluster ingress, and between workloads in your Kubernetes and traditional compute clusters. Edge and ingress gateways route and load balance application traffic across clusters and clouds while the mesh controls connectivity between services. A single management plane configures connectivity, security, and observability for your entire application network. -
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F5 Aspen Mesh empowers companies to drive more performance from their modern app environment by leveraging the power of their service mesh. As part of F5, Aspen Mesh is focused on delivering enterprise-class products that enhance companies’ modern app environments. Deliver new and differentiating features faster with microservices. Aspen Mesh lets you do that at scale, with confidence. Reduce the risk of downtime and improve your customers’ experience. If you’re scaling microservices to production on Kubernetes, Aspen Mesh will help you get the most out of your distributed systems. Aspen Mesh empowers companies to drive more performance from their modern app environment by leveraging the power of their service mesh. Alerts that decrease the risk of application failure or performance degradation based on data and machine learning models. Secure Ingress safely exposes enterprise apps to customers and the web.
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Kuma
Kuma
The open-source control plane for service mesh, delivering security, observability, routing and more. Built on top of Envoy, Kuma is a modern control plane for Microservices & Service Mesh for both K8s and VMs, with support for multiple meshes in one cluster. Out of the box L4 + L7 policy architecture to enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing and traffic reliability in one click. Getting up and running with Kuma only requires three easy steps. Natively embedded with Envoy proxy, Kuma Delivers easy to use policies that can secure, observe, connect, route and enhance service connectivity for every application and services, databases included. Build modern service and application connectivity across every platform, cloud and architecture. Kuma supports modern Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machine workloads in the same cluster, with native multi-cloud and multi-cluster connectivity to support the entire organization. -
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Valence
Valence Security
Today, organizations automate business processes by integrating hundreds of applications via direct APIs, SaaS marketplaces and third-party apps, and hyperautomation platforms, forming a SaaS to SaaS supply chain. The supply chain enables exchange of data and privileges via an expanding network of indiscriminate and shadow connectivity. This leads to an increasing risk surface of supply chain attacks, misconfigurations and data exposure. Bring SaaS to SaaS connectivity out of the shadows and map your risk surface. Identify and alert on risky changes, new integrations and anomalous data flows. Extend zero trust principles to your SaaS to SaaS supply chain with governance and policy enforcement. Delivers quick, continuous and non-intrusive SaaS to SaaS supply chain risk surface management. Streamlines collaboration between business application teams and enterprise IT security teams. -
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Meshery
Meshery
Describe all of your cloud native infrastructure and manage as a pattern. Design your service mesh configuration and workload deployments. Apply intelligent canary strategies and performance profiles with service mesh pattern management. Assess your service mesh configuration against deployment and operational best practices with Meshery's configuration validator. Validate your service mesh's conformance to Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specifications. Dynamically load and manage your own WebAssembly filters in Envoy-based service meshes. Service mesh adapters provision, configure, and manage their respective service meshes. -
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Calisti
Cisco
Calisti enables security, observability, traffic management for microservices and cloud native applications, and allows admins to switch between live and historical views. Configuring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), burn rate, error budget and compliance monitoring, Calisti sends a GraphQL alert to automatically scale based on SLO burn rate. Calisti manages microservices running on containers and virtual machines, allowing for application migration from VMs to containers in a phased manner. Reducing management overhead by applying policies consistently and meeting application Service Level Objectives across both K8s and VMs. Istio has new releases every three months. Calisti includes our Istio Operator that automates lifecycle management, and even enables canary deployment of the platform itself. -
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greymatter.io
greymatter.io
Maximize your resources. Ensure optimal use of your clouds, platforms, and software. This is application and API network operations management redefined. The same governance rules, observability, auditing, and policy control for every application, API, and network across your multi-cloud, data center and edge environments, all in one place. Zero-trust micro-segmentation, omni-directional traffic splitting, infrastructure agnostic attestation, and traffic management to secure your resources. IT-informed decision-making is real. Application, API & network monitoring and control generate massive IT operations data. Use it in real time through AI. Logging, metrics, tracing, and audits through Grey Matter simplifies integration and standardizes aggregation for all IT Operations data. Fully leverage your mesh telemetry and securely and flexibly future-proof your hybrid infrastructure. -
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Buoyant Cloud
Buoyant
Fully managed Linkerd, right on your cluster. Running a service mesh shouldn’t require a team of engineers. Buoyant Cloud manages Linkerd so that you don’t have to. Automate away the toil. Buoyant Cloud automatically keeps your Linkerd control plane and data plane up to date with the latest versions and handles installs, trust anchor rotation, and more. Automate upgrades, installs, and more. Keep data plane proxy versions always in sync. Rotate TLS trust anchors without breaking a sweat. Never get taken unaware. Buoyant Cloud continuously monitors the health of your Linkerd deployments and proactively alerts you of potential issues before they escalate. Automatically track service mesh health. Get a global, cross-cluster view of Linkerd's behavior. Monitor and report Linkerd best practices. Forget overly-complicated solutions that pile one layer of complexity on top of another. Linkerd just works, and Buoyant Cloud makes Linkerd easier than ever.¿ -
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Anthos Service Mesh
Google
Designing your applications as microservices provides many benefits. However, your workloads can become complex and fragmented as they scale. Anthos Service Mesh is Google's implementation of the powerful Istio open source project, which allows you to manage, observe, and secure services without having to change your application code. Anthos Service Mesh simplifies service delivery, from managing mesh telemetry and traffic to protecting communications between services, significantly reducing the burden on development and operations teams. Anthos Service Mesh is Google's fully managed service mesh, allowing you to easily manage these complex environments and reap all the benefits they offer. As a fully managed offering, Anthos Service Mesh takes the guesswork and effort out of purchasing and managing your service mesh solution. Focus on building great apps and let us take care of the mesh. -
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