Linkerd Alternatives

Service Mesh

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1. Tanzu Service Mesh (Legacy)

By Broadcom (VMware)

4.1

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.Read all insights and reviews for Tanzu Service Mesh (Legacy)

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2. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

By IBM (Red Hat)

4.4

RedHat Openshift allows us to quickly deploy cloud based capabilities and promotes ease of development of applications based on Linux. Also, the vendor provides really good and on-time support and resolution in case of any issues that may arise (since we deployed this on the cloud)Read all insights and reviews for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

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3. Kong Mesh

4.4

The product got a learning curve but its reasonable, its works solid & lots of custom knobs.Read all insights and reviews for Kong Mesh

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4. AWS App Mesh

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.7

The AWS product for App Mesh was a bit lacking at first. Its interface was clunky when we first subscribed but has improved over time. This service has greatly increased of effectiveness in the management and support of our Kubernetes.Read all insights and reviews for AWS App Mesh

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5. Anthos Service Mesh

4.4

Anthos services mesh is a comprehensive backend API/service management framework, which save you a lot work like setting up load balancing, security, privacy, etc. So that you can focus on your application logics.Read all insights and reviews for Anthos Service Mesh

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6. Gloo Mesh

4.8

The experience has overall been great with Solo.io, they've been receptive to suggestions and have been very helpful in understanding service mesh as we implement for our Org.Read all insights and reviews for Gloo Mesh

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7. NGINX Service Mesh (Legacy)

By F5

4

It was an amazing experience. NGINX Service Mesh provides high performance capabilities for managing container traffic, offer metrics and tracing data that can be aggregated by tools, and allow for the creation of the custom. Read all insights and reviews for NGINX Service Mesh (Legacy)

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8. HashiCorp Consul

By IBM

3.5

We use Hashicorp Consul for Service to Service communication networks. We have tried inhouse solutions for achieveing S2S communication but the architecture was always resulting in security concerns hence we moved to hashicorp consul. Since it is cloud native solution it was easy to install and set up although documentation for set up and integration is a bit confusing and we had to wait for long to get in touch with customer srvice to resolve our issues. Overall a great tool to accomplish service mesh architecture within our products Read all insights and reviews for HashiCorp Consul

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