πŸ”§ Tools in Linkerd Tools

Tetrate Service Bridge

The enterprise service mesh company.

An enterprise-grade application connectivity platform built on Istio and Envoy that provides a unified way to manage and secure services across complex, heterogeneous environments.

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Cilium Service Mesh

eBPF-based Networking, Observability, and Security.

A high-performance service mesh that leverages eBPF for networking, observability, and security, reducing or eliminating the need for sidecar proxies.

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Solo.io Gloo Mesh

Enterprise Istio, simplified and secured.

An enterprise-grade management plane for Istio that simplifies multi-cluster and multi-cloud operations, built on top of open source Istio.

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Linkerd

The world's lightest, fastest service mesh.

An ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability features to your applications.

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NGINX Service Mesh

A developer-friendly, free, and simple service mesh.

A lightweight service mesh from F5 NGINX that provides security, traffic management, and observability for Kubernetes applications.

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Prometheus

From metrics to insight.

An open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that is the de facto standard for metrics collection in cloud-native environments, including service meshes.

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Grafana

The open observability platform.

A leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability, used to visualize metrics, logs, and traces from various data sources, including service meshes.

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Envoy Proxy

An open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications.

A high-performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and β€œuniversal data plane” for large microservice architectures.

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Kuma

The universal service mesh.

A universal open source control plane for service mesh, built by Kong. It can run on any platform, including Kubernetes and VMs.

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Traefik Mesh

A simple, yet full-featured service mesh.

A lightweight, easy-to-use, and non-invasive service mesh for Kubernetes that is built on top of the popular Traefik Proxy.

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Google Cloud Service Mesh (Anthos)

Fully managed service mesh for complex microservices.

A fully managed version of Istio from Google Cloud that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, and manage microservices.

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Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Connect, manage, and observe microservices-based applications.

An integrated service mesh for the Red Hat OpenShift platform, based on Istio and enhanced with tools like Kiali and Jaeger.

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Istio

An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.

A feature-rich, open-source service mesh that provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices.

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Consul

Automate networking for simple and secure application delivery.

A service mesh and service discovery tool from HashiCorp that connects and secures services across any infrastructure.

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Jaeger

Open source, end-to-end distributed tracing.

A CNCF-graduated open source, end-to-end distributed tracing system that helps monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems.

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Datadog

Modern monitoring & security.

A SaaS-based monitoring, security, and analytics platform that provides deep observability into service meshes like Linkerd and Istio.

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AWS App Mesh

Application-level networking for all your services.

A managed service mesh from AWS that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure.

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Open Service Mesh (OSM)

A lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh.

A CNCF sandbox project, OSM is a lightweight, extensible service mesh that runs on Kubernetes. It focuses on simplicity and adherence to the SMI specification.

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Meshery

The cloud native manager.

A multi-service mesh management plane that enables the adoption, operation, and management of any service mesh and their workloads.

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Kiali

Service mesh observability for Istio.

A management console for an Istio-based service mesh. It provides dashboards, observability, and lets you operate your mesh with robust configuration and validation capabilities.

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Aspen Mesh

Enterprise-Ready Istio, Simplified.

An enterprise Istio platform built by F5 that simplifies Istio operation and provides enhanced observability and security features.

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Buoyant Cloud

The platform for Linkerd.

A managed platform from the creators of Linkerd that simplifies the operation, management, and monitoring of the Linkerd service mesh.

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