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Enterprise-Class Availability, Security, and Visibility for Kubernetes Services
Reduce complexity, increase uptime, and gain better insight into service health and performance at scale within a Kubernetes cluster.
Why Use NGINX Service Mesh?
Simplify Operations
NGINX Service Mesh is purpose-built to deliver consistent, secure, low-latency service connectivity:
- An easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use Kubernetes-native tool for centralized control and management of communication among services within a Kubernetes cluster
- The data and control planes and the same across all hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Tight and seamless integration with NGINX Ingress Controller for unified app connectivity into, out of, and within the cluster
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Deliver Apps Without Disruption
NGINX Service Mesh ensures availability of business-critical backend services with:
- Advanced Layer 7 (HTTP, gRPC) and Layer 4 (TCP, UDP) load balancing with dynamic updates of target service instances
- Canary and blue-green deployments to avoid downtime when rolling out a new version of a backend service
- Rate limiting and circuit breaker connectivity patterns with transaction retries to prevent connection timeouts and errors during topology changes, extremely high request rates, and service failures
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Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats
Integrate strong centralized security controls across distributed services within a Kubernetes cluster:
- Manage and enforce authorized access by verified service identities with SPIFFE and the SPIRE runtime, using built-in or external certificate authority (CA) and automated certificate lifecycle management
- Apply access-control policies to control communication to and from specific source and destination endpoints
- Secure service-to-service communication through mTLS authentication and encryption
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Gain Better Insight
Achieve better visibility into app health and performance with over 100 granular metrics monitored and reported by NGINX Service Mesh:
- Discover issues before they impact your customers, reducing outages and downtime
- Quickly find the root cause of service failures, streamlining and simplifying troubleshooting
- Leverage integrations with your favorite ecosystem tools for collecting, monitoring and analyzing metrics, including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and Jaeger
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Speed Up Releases
Deliver apps faster and easier with NGINX Service Mesh:
- Streamline and simplify service-to-service communication in complex, distributed microservices-based environments
- Focus on implementing core business expertise and functionality within the backend services
- Offload security and other non-functional requirements to the platform layer
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Deploy on Any Kubernetes Platform, Including:
- Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
- Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Red Hat OpenShift
- SUSE Rancher
- VMware Tanzu
- Any other Kubernetes-conformant platform
Learn More About NGINX Service Mesh
Blog
How to Choose a Service Mesh
NGINX Service Mesh is officially production-ready! NGINX Service Mesh is free, optimized for developers, and the lightest, easiest way to implement mTLS and end-to-end encryption in...
NGINX Webinars
Are You Service Mesh Ready? Moving from Consideration to Implementation
Service mesh adoption is growing rapidly, but adopting a mesh too soon – or selecting the wrong mesh! – can add complexity that hampers success.
Ebook
Managing Kubernetes Traffic with F5 NGINX: A Practical Guide
Learn how to manage Kubernetes traffic with F5 NGINX Ingress Controller and F5 NGINX Service Mesh and solve the complex challenges of running Kubernetes in production.
