Service Mesh Platforms

Ranking methodology

In development — no version effective yet.

Decision archetype: technical · Scores are category-relative (P-01) and commercial relationships never affect rank (P-04).

Tools (3)

IstioIstio Project

Open source

Open source service mesh that manages traffic, security, and observability between microservices via sidecars.

Open source

Open source service mesh built on Envoy supporting both Kubernetes and universal workload deployments.

Open source

Lightweight open source service mesh providing mTLS, retries, and traffic metrics for Kubernetes services.