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Gartner defines the service mesh market as the market for distributed computing middleware that enables, secures and optimizes communications between services running primarily in container management systems. A service mesh provides lightweight mediation, dynamic service discovery, request routing, observability, traceability and communication security.
The service mesh is a technology that provides software infrastructure for communications between distributed application components deployed mainly in container management systems such as Kubernetes. This type of middleware helps manage and monitor service-to-service (east-west) communications, especially among microservices within an application domain. It also provides visibility into service interactions, enabling proactive operations and faster diagnostics. It automates complex communication concerns, thereby improving security, developer productivity and ensuring that standards and policies are enforced consistently across applications.

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Tanzu Service Mesh (Legacy)

Broadcom (VMware)

Senior Research And Data Analyst

Using Tanzu Service Mesh has greatly improved our infrastructure visibility, turning it from unclear to completely clear. we can easily analyse metrics across clusters and quickly detect problems in our global deployments, allowing us to catch issues before they affect our services.

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

50M - 250M USD

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

<50M USD

500M - 1B USD

250M - 500M USD

1B - 3B USD

PLATFORM ENGINEER

The product works well for certain use cases especially if you have multiple k8s clusters in different clouds (onprem and public). 

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

As a modern team managing microservices across different clusters, Tanzu Service Mesh has given us an easy and reliable way to secure, manage, and monitor our services efficiently.

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A Solution to Secure and Manage Microservices

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Istion integration in the Tanzu portfolio

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