SotA Service Mesh 24/25

Abstract

This is a State-of-the-Art exploration about Service Mesh Solutions between Q2/2024 and Q1/2025. It analyses 9 products with around 12 properties in 5 categories:

- Basic Properties
- Interoperability
- Advanced Capabilies
- Strength & Weakness
- Commercial Offerings

9 instead of 10, because the NGINX Service Mesh (7) was archived.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Properties (overview)
  • Basic properties:
  • Interoperability:
  • Advanced capabilities:
  • Strengths & weaknesses
  • Commercial offers
• Product overview
  • Basic overview
• Summaries
  • Strengths and weaknesses
  • Basic features comparison
  • Interoperability comparison
  • Comparison of advanced properties
  • Github Numbers (April/24)
• Products in detail
  • 1. Istio
  • 2. LinkerD
  • 3. Consul Connect
  • 4. AWS App Mesh
  • 5. Service Fabric Mesh
  • 6. Traefik Mesh
  • 7. NGINX Service Mesh
  • 8. Rancher
  • 9. Kuma
  • 10. Cilium
• Properties in detail
  • 1. Basic properties:
  • 2. Interoperability
  • 3. Advanced capabilities
  • 4. Strengths and weaknesses
  • 5. Commercial offers
• Glossary