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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.

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.

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.

ARMO pioneers a new approach to Cloud Security with an open source powered, behavioral driven, Cloud Runtime Security Platform. ARMOs CADR (Cloud App Detection & Response) solution addresses a major unsolved pain point for organizations running on cloud-native architectures: how to continuously protect dynamic workloads during runtime without overwhelming teams with alerts or interrupting operations. ARMO CADR continuously reduces the cloud attack surface using real-time runtime insights, while actively detecting and responding to threats with true risk context. It includes 2 major products that are tightly integrated together and are part of one platform solution - * Kubernetes-First, runtime driven, Cloud Security Posture mgmt (CSPM) - identifying risks, prioritizing them and offering remediation without breaking applications in production * Real-Time Threat Detection & Response - detecting and responding to active threats across the entire cloud and applications stack

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.

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.

Ambient Mesh is a next-generation, sidecar-less service mesh designed to simplify security, connectivity, and observability for cloud-native workloads. It enables teams to secure and connect applications without modifying application code or adding operational overhead. Ambient Mesh provides zero-trust, SPIFFE-based security with end-to-end workload encryption. Built-in observability tools deliver distributed tracing, logs, and real-time performance insights. The platform supports advanced traffic control features such as routing, failover, and blue-green deployments. Ambient Mesh allows organizations to migrate from traditional sidecar-based meshes with zero downtime. By reducing complexity and resource usage, it helps teams operate more efficiently at scale.

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.