The Service Mesh Landscape

Comparison of Service Mesh Strengths

Linkerd

Time to Value, Performance

Istio

Powerful Feature Set, Extensibility

Consul

Support for Non-Kubernetes Workloads

NGINX Service Mesh

Interoperability with Existing Ingresses

Network Service Mesh

Layer2 and Layer3 Functions

Service Mesh Timeline

Service Mesh Comparison Matrix

Service Mesh

  • A10 Secure Service Mesh
  • App Mesh
  • Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM)
  • Aspen Mesh
  • Cilium
  • Citrix Service Mesh
  • Consul
  • Grey Matter
  • Istio
  • Kuma
  • Linkerd 1.x
  • Linkerd 2.x(Conduit)
  • NGINX Service Mesh
  • Traefik Mesh
  • Maistra
  • Mesher
  • SOFAMesh
  • Octarine
  • Open Service Mesh
  • Rotor
  • Yggdrasil
  • Zuul
  • Vulcand
  • Network Service Mesh

Client Library

  • Akka
  • Finagle
  • Hystrix
  • Ribbon
  • Go kit
  • Spring Boot
  • DropWizard
  • go-zero

API Gateway

  • Ambassador
  • Contour
  • Kong
  • OpenResty
  • 3scale
  • Citrix ADC

Service Proxy

  • A10 Lightning ADC
  • Contour
  • Envoy
  • HAProxy
  • nginMesh
  • NGINX Plus
  • MOSN
  • Traefik
  • Vulcand
  • Citrix ADC CPX

Load Balancer

  • A10 Thunder ADC
  • NGINX
  • Proxygen
  • Citrix ADC
  • kube-proxy

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Service Mesh Landscape

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