Exploring alternatives to Istio

There are various other alternatives to Istio, all with their own pros and cons. Here, we will list a few of the other Service Mesh implementations available.

Kuma

At the time of writing (2022), Kuma is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project and was originally created by Kong Inc., the company that also provides the Kong API management gateway both in open source and commercial variants. Kuma is advertised by Kong Inc. as a modern distributed control plane with bundled Envoy proxy integration. It supports multi-cloud and multi-zone connectivity for highly distributed applications. The Kuma data plane is composed of Envoy proxies, which are then managed by Kuma control planes, and it supports workloads deployed on not only Kubernetes but also virtual machines and bare-metal environments. Kong Inc also provides an enterprise Service Mesh offering called Kong Mesh, which extends CNCF’s Kuma and Envoy.

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