Service Mesh

If you’re running a multi-AZ Kubernetes cluster with a service mesh on top, there’s a good chance you’re paying a tax you never signed up for, and it won’t show up as ...

Linkerd 2.20 maintainer Buoyant claims it has slashed control plane memory usage by 85% in this version. If you want a lean, mean cloud-native mesh, Linkerd is for you. This latest release ...

Sidecarless service mesh architectures like Istio Ambient Mode are reducing complexity and reigniting enterprise adoption in 2026 ...

Buoyant has announced it plans to add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the open source Linkerd service mesh for Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO William Morgan said that capability will ...

It wasn’t that long ago that service mesh was the shiny new toy of the cloud-native stack. For many platform teams, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or Kuma promised to solve some of ...

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot of confusion about “sidecars or sidecarless” in the context of service meshes. This architectural choice turns out to be very important – ...

Buoyant this week made available an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that, in addition to providing access to an experimental version that integrates Windows platforms, also makes it now ...

Bouyant has added IPv6 support along with an ability to more easily review audit zero-trust security policies before they are enforced by the open-source Linkerd service mesh ...

Istio maintainers are preparing a beta release of the Ambient edition of the platform that eliminates the need to rely on container sidecars to deploy it ...

Solo.io's Gloo Network now supports virtual networks based on the open source Cilium virtual networking software ...