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Kuma
A platform-agnostic, open-source control plane for service mesh and microservices, built on Envoy and maintained by Kong.
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A hand-checked directory of the leading service mesh platforms, control planes, and data-plane proxies for securing, observing, and routing traffic between microservices
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Istio
The open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications, now offering sidecar-less ambient mode.
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Linkerd
The world's lightest, fastest service mesh — CNCF graduated, written in Rust, and built for enterprise power without enterprise complexity.
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HashiCorp Consul
Consul's service mesh controls the distributed data plane, providing service discovery, secure communication, and network automation.
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F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric
Successor to NGINX Service Mesh — lightweight, Kubernetes-native Gateway API connectivity with model-aware routing for AI workloads.
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Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Built on Istio, Envoy, and Kiali — a uniform way to connect, manage, observe, and secure microservices-based applications on OpenShift.
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MOSN
Modular Open Smart Network — a cloud-native network proxy written in Go by Ant Group, integrable with Istio to build a full service mesh.
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Kiali
The console for Istio service mesh — configure, visualize, validate, and troubleshoot your mesh topology and traffic health.
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Traefik Mesh
A straightforward, easy-to-configure, non-invasive service mesh from Traefik Labs that requires no sidecar containers.
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AWS App Mesh
Application-level networking for all your services on AWS. Note: AWS has announced App Mesh will reach end-of-life on September 30, 2026.
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Open Service Mesh
A lightweight, extensible, SMI-based cloud native service mesh built on Envoy. Now an archived CNCF sandbox project, still a useful reference.
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Solo.io Istio (formerly Gloo Mesh)
Production-ready Istio with ambient mode from Solo.io, co-creators of Istio's sidecar-less architecture — multi-cluster, multi-platform mesh management.
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Google Cloud Service Mesh
Formerly Traffic Director and Anthos Service Mesh — a fully managed service mesh solution for simplifying, managing, and securing microservices.
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Envoy
A high-performance C++ distributed proxy for single services and applications, and the universal data plane for large service mesh architectures.
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Network Service Mesh
The hybrid/multi-cloud IP service mesh — L3 zero trust connectivity, security, and observability per workload, with no changes to Kubernetes.
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VMware Tanzu Service Mesh
An enterprise-class service mesh, built on VMware NSX, providing consistent control and security for microservices across clusters and clouds.
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