Google Cloud Traffic Director
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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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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F5 NGINX Gateway Fabric
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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Kong Mesh
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.
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