Product Istio Linkerd2 Kuma Maesh Consul connect AWS App Mesh NGINX Service Mesh

1. General information

Link https://istio.io/ https://linkerd.io/2/overview/ https://kuma.io/install/latest/ https://docs.mae.sh/install/ https://www.consul.io/mesh.html https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/ https://nginx.com/products/nginx-service-mesh

Written in Go Go / Rust Go Go Go Go / C

Developed by Google, IBM, Lyft Buoyant Kong Containous Hashicorp Amazon NGINX

License Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0 Mozilla License Closed source Closed source / Apache License 2.0

Platform Comparison of service meshes Kubernetes Kubernetes Agnostic Kubernetes Agnostic ECS, Fargate, EKS, EC2 Kubernetes

2. Data plane

Service proxy Envoy Linkerd proxy Envoy Traefik Built-in, Envoy Envoy NGINX Plus

Automatic sidecar injection ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

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3. Supported protocols Leave a comment or drop us a line at [email protected]

TCP ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

UDP License: ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎

HTTP/1.1 Apache 2.0 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔��

HTTP/2 Last updated: ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

gRPC January 29, 2021 ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

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4. Monitoring https://learnk8s.io/research

Prometheus integration ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

Dedicated dashboard ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️

Tracing backends Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin OpenTracing Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin Jaeger, Open Tracing, Zipkin, Datadog

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5. Resilience

Circuit breaking ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️

Retries and timeout ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

Abort injection ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎

Delay injection ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎

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6.Security

mTLS ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

External CA certificate ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

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7. Service Mesh Interface

Access control ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️

Traffic split ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️

Traffic specs ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️

Metrics ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️

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8. Extensibility

Multi-cluster support ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️

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