16 best Go Service mesh libraries in 2024

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Go service mesh libraries like istio, linkerd2, osm, gloo-mesh are used to introduce the concept of microservices in Go. These libraries can provide end-to-end visibility of services across the cluster. In addition, they also provide a number of other features such as load balancing and service discovery which helps you to scale your applications easily. Linkerd2 is the main service mesh library used by Linkerd and many other companies using Linkerd as their primary service mesh. iGloobus Mesh is another option, though it was developed for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specifically. Gloobus Mesh can be configured to work with multiple clouds. Istio is also an excellent choice for service mesh, but its main advantage over Linkerd is that it’s built on Kubernetes and runs on any cloud provider that supports Kubernetes. As such, it can be used with any orchestrator β€” including Kubernetes itself β€” and works with all the major cloud providers. Developers tend to use some of the following open source Go service mesh libraries

istioby istio

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Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

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            istioby istio

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            Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
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                      linkerd2by linkerd

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                      Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

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                                linkerd2by linkerd

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                                Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.
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                                          kumaby kumahq

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                                          🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

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                                                    kumaby kumahq

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                                                    🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
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                                                              osmby openservicemesh

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                                                              Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

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                                                                        osmby openservicemesh

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                                                                        Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
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                                                                                  meshby traefik

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                                                                                  Traefik Mesh - Simpler Service Mesh

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                                                                                            meshby traefik

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                                                                                            Traefik Mesh - Simpler Service Mesh
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                                                                                                      gloo-meshby solo-io

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                                                                                                      The Service Mesh Orchestration Platform

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                                                                                                                gloo-meshby solo-io

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                                                                                                                          mesheryby layer5io

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                                                                                                                          Meshery, the service mesh management plane

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                                                                                                                                    mesheryby layer5io

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                                                                                                                                    Meshery, the service mesh management plane
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                                                                                                                                              A high performance service mesh implementation written in go

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                                                                                                                                                        servicecomb-mesherby apache

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                                                                                                                                                        A high performance service mesh implementation written in go
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                                                                                                                                                                  nginmeshby nginxinc

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                                                                                                                                                                  Istio compatible service mesh using NGINX

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                                                                                                                                                                            nginmeshby nginxinc

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                                                                                                                                                                            Istio compatible service mesh using NGINX
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                                                                                                                                                                                      networkservicemeshby networkservicemesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                      The Hybrid/Multi-cloud IP Service Mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                The Hybrid/Multi-cloud IP Service Mesh
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                                                                                                                                                                                                          consul-k8sby hashicorp

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              admiralby istio-ecosystem

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Admiral provides automatic configuration generation, syncing and service discovery for multicluster Istio service mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  easemeshby megaease

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  A service mesh implementation for connecting, control, and observe services in spring-cloud.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            easemeshby megaease

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A service mesh implementation for connecting, control, and observe services in spring-cloud.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      aerakiby aeraki-mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Manage any layer-7 protocols in a Service Mesh.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                aerakiby aeraki-mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          operatorby istio

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Istio operator provides user friendly options to operate the Istio service mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    operatorby istio

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Example application to help demonstrate the Linkerd service mesh

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Example application to help demonstrate the Linkerd service mesh
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