Istio Alternatives (September 2025)

Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability to your Kubernetes stack, without any code changes.

Kong Mesh is an enterprise-ready service mesh that provides security, reliability and observability for Kubernetes environments. Accelerate deployments today!

Traefik Mesh is an open source service mesh, easy to configure that allows visibility and management of the traffic flows inside any Kubernetes cluster.

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The industry's only active security platform with full-stack observability for containers and Kubernetes.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

Ambassador Labs - We build best-in-class Kubernetes-native productivity tools to safely design, develop, test, deploy, & monitor apps with speed & efficiency

Simplify your Kubernetes deployment with Kublr. Our platform offers fast and efficient setup and orchestration for small and large scale enterprises.

Rancher, the open-source multi-cluster orchestration platform, lets operations teams deploy, manage and secure enterprise Kubernetes. Request a demo!

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.

Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

Implement unified Kubernetes-native API gateways, load balancers, and ingress controllers across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service enables the orchestration of intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling.

Devtron enables swift app containerization, seamless Kubernetes deployment, and peak performance optimization – simplify your app management today!

Easily manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with the automation power of the Kubermatic platform. Scale your business with reliability.

Kong Gateway is the industry’s most trusted open source API gateway. Accelerate development and delivery of APIs and microservices with Kong Gateway today!

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

Kong is the most widely adopted API gateway and service mesh, powering the world’s APIs for modern architectures. Accelerate development and productivity today!

Portainer is your container management software to deploy, troubleshoot, and secure applications across cloud, datacenter, and Industrial IoT use cases.

A Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.

Integrate F5 technology with containerized environments to enable dynamic, advanced application services.

CAST AI cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and prevents downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform.

Google Cloud’s new Traffic Director control-plane management tool brings load balancing a resiliency to environments running on a service mesh.

Read how Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes helps you secure your systems

A high performance, open source universal RPC …

Kubeflow makes deployment of ML Workflows on Kubernetes straightforward and automated

Managed Enterprise Container Management for Organizations. We have private and managed container orchestration for Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

Chronosphere is the only cloud native observability platform that helps teams quickly resolve incidents while controlling costs. Learn how.

Apache Mesos abstracts resources away from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

A secure cloud management platform for automation, orchestration, cost and usage monitoring of public and private clouds, hypervisors and container hosts. Provides multi-cloud RBAC. Enables self service provisioning. Cost analytics and cloud spending optimization

Get out-of-the-box full stack monitoring and observability, expert guidance and actionable insights in a single intuitive interface with StackState.

Anthos is the core enterprise technology that empowers Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC).

Harness unparalleled operational insight with Apica's Observatory Platform. Designed for modern enterprises, our solution delivers scalable, powerful, and cost-effective APM monitoring for complex computing ecosystems.

VMware Tanzu is a cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

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Gain visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered apps on Google Cloud and other cloud or on-premises environments.

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness, and portability

Reimagine your application connectivity and API management with Traefik's unmatched approach to cloud native.

Reliably lighten the Kubernetes Troubleshooting and Monitoring Workload for your DevOps and Developers.

Quickly see all of your endpoints, your slow endpoints, and your endpoints with errors.

With its VPN solution for business or personal use, UTunnel makes it simple to set up and manage dedicated VPN servers in the cloud or on-premise.

Spend smart, procure faster and retire committed Google Cloud spend with Google Cloud Marketplace. Browse the catalog of over 2000 SaaS, VMs, development stacks, and Kubernetes apps optimized to run on Google Cloud.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) intelligently manages network traffic so applications are always fast, available, and secure.

ZEDEDA delivers an open, distributed, cloud-native edge management and orchestration solution.

DaoCloud Enterprise 5.0 下一代容器化平台集大成者，引领云原生浪潮，推动数字化转型。

Full dev-to-prod cloud native security platform on Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fargate, Lambda, AWS & other container platforms

Powered by technology from Threat Stack, F5 Distributed Cloud AIP delivers comprehensive telemetry and high-efficacy intrusion detection for cloud-native workloads. Customers can now better address a larger threat surface with increased visibility and support in securing both modern applications and the infrastructure they run on.

Software operations are easier with Juju - the open source orchestration engine for software operators. Deploy, integrate, scale and manage your applications' lifecycle at any scale, on any infrastructure with Juju and charms.

A flexible messaging platform that enables real-time integration and connects the Internet of Things (IoT).

Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev

Learn more about Elastic Observability — the most widely deployed GenAI optimized observability solution. You get full stack visibility and actionable insights to go from real-time to proactive....

Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes – on-premises, at the edge, or air-gapped – with our flexible platform that reduces ops cost and accelerates delivery of revenue-generating apps.

Our platform as a service (PaaS) gives development teams control and peace of mind while accelerating the time to build and deploy applications.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

meshIQ is an award winning middleware management platform that provides IT leaders to observe their integration infrastructure with ease.

flannel is a network fabric for containers, designed for Kubernetes - flannel-io/flannel

Unlocking deep insights with Full-Stack Observability, powerful SixthSense AI for Cognitive AIOps, Data Observability, and robust API Security.

Observability and security for teams that love open source.

DevOps serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and no vendor lock-in

What Is An Observability Pipeline?

Developer Observability Platform - securely & dynamically instrument logs, metrics & traces from your IDE in live production applications.

groundcover - reinventing APM with eBPF. Monitor everything you build and run in the cloud without compromising on cost, granularity, or scale.

KrakenD is a high-performance Open Source API Gateway that enables you to build scalable and resilient microservices architectures.

IBM Instana Observability is the gold standard of incident prevention with automated full-stack visibility, 1-second granularity and 3-seconds to notify.

Gain deep visibility into infrastructure, services, and applications at enterprise scale through Sysdig Monitor. Installs in seconds - free trial!

Easily unify the management, security, and governance of both synchronous and asynchronous ecosystems with the leading open source API Management platform.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

Gain unified visibility, find and fix problems faster and take control of your data and costs.

Discover and control PII and PCI data in-motion and at-rest.

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

Gain end-to-end visibility with Riverbed Network Observability. Get actionable insights to swiftly resolve network performance issues.

Telia SD-WAN cost effective, scalable and agile company network that adapts flexibly to your business needs.

Build better AI and API products with a powerful observability and monetization platform

Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard.

Simple, resilient multi-host containers networking and more. - weaveworks/weave

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Middleware observability platform provides complete visibility into your apps & stack, so you can monitor & diagnose issues at scale.

Secure your workload anywhere with Cisco Secure Workload (Tetration). Automate micro-segmentation, simplify security for SDN and migration to cloud.

The Observability Pipeline that delivers monitoring as code on any cloud

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is a real-time monitoring and troubleshooting solution for all environments, delivering speed, scale and flexibility.

Codefresh has everything you need to deliver software, providing a foundation for growth with modern CI, CD, GitOps, and more while integrating with your favorite tools.

The Future Of Digital Infrastructure Is Cloudaware

Mesh is the world's first email security platform built exclusively for MSPs, enhancing their efficiency and ensuring greater safety for their customers. Offering flexible deployment options - Mesh Gateway (MX based), Mesh 365 (API based), and Mesh Unified (MX and API based) - Mesh protects organiza

Spot any issue that impacts important business KPIs with Splunk APM. Accelerate MTTR by combining all the related data in intuitive visuals.

Bunnyshell is an Environment as a Service platform that enables developers to instantly spin up dev environments for any task on Kubernetes and develop remotely.

Lumigo is a monitoring and troubleshooting platform for microservice environments, built for developers.

Sysdig Secure is part of Sysdig's container intelligence platform. Sysdig provides a unified platform to deliver security, monitoring, and forensics in a cloud, container and microservices-friendly architecture integrated with Docker and Kubernetes. Sysdig Secure takes a services-aware approach to protect workloads while bringing deep cloud and container visibility, posture management (compliance, benchmarks, CIEM), vulnerability scanning, forensics, threat detection and blocking.

Orca Security provides agentless, workload-deep, context-aware cloud infrastructure security and compliance through our comprehensive cloud security solution all in a single platform.

SASE is the convergence of cloud networking and cloud security for simplicity, scalability, flexibility, and pervasive security. Learn more.

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

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