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26 projects found for "service mesh"
Istio
Apache-2.0The leading service mesh for Kubernetes, adding traffic management, security, and observability to microservices without changing application code.
- DevOps
Linkerd
Apache-2.0Lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes focused on simplicity and low resource overhead, a genuine alternative to Istio.
- DevOps
Envoy
Apache-2.0High-performance proxy built for cloud-native applications, serving as the foundational data plane for many modern service meshes and API gateways.
- DevOps
Chaos Mesh
Apache-2.0Cloud-native chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes that injects controlled faults - pod, network, I/O, and more - to test how a system actually behaves under failure.
- Testing
Apache APISIX
Apache-2.0Dynamic, high-performance API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, adding hot-reloaded plugins, canary releases, and AI-traffic routing on top of traditional gateway features.
- API
Dapr
Apache-2.0Portable runtime that gives microservices building blocks - state management, pub/sub messaging, service invocation, and workflow - over a sidecar API in any language.
- Backend
gRPC
Apache-2.0High-performance, open-source RPC framework that lets services call each other's functions directly across languages and networks.
- API
Jaeger
Apache-2.0CNCF distributed tracing platform for visualizing request flows across microservices, pinpointing exactly which service or call is responsible for latency or errors.
- Monitoring
Kong
Apache-2.0Cloud-native API gateway that handles routing, load balancing, authentication, and traffic management for microservices, APIs, and LLM/MCP traffic.
- API
Quarkus
Apache-2.0Kubernetes-native Java framework designed for fast startup times and low memory footprint, tailored for containers and serverless.
- Backend
Appwrite
BSD-3-ClauseOpen-source backend platform providing authentication, databases, storage, functions and realtime APIs, self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
- Backend
- Database
- Authentication & Security
Backstage
Apache-2.0Open framework for building an internal developer portal, unifying a company's services, infrastructure, and documentation behind one searchable software catalog.
- Developer Tools
Ory Kratos
Apache-2.0API-first, headless identity and user management server for cloud-native applications, covering login, registration, recovery, and profile management.
- Authentication & Security
PocketBase
MITOpen source backend consisting of an embedded SQLite database, authentication, file storage and a realtime API in a single executable.
- Backend
- Database
SkyWalking
Apache-2.0Application performance monitoring (APM) platform providing distributed tracing, service topology, and metrics in one system.
- Monitoring
Uptime Kuma
MITSelf-hosted uptime and status monitoring tool with a reactive dashboard, covering HTTP, TCP, DNS, ping, Docker containers, and more.
- Monitoring
Fortio
Apache-2.0Load testing and network measurement tool built for microservices, reporting detailed latency percentiles under sustained load.
- Testing
Gitea
MITLightweight, self-hosted Git service with issue tracking, pull requests and CI integration.
- Developer Tools
n8n
Sustainable Use LicenseWorkflow automation platform that lets you connect apps and services with a visual, node-based editor.
- Automation
- Developer Tools
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Apache-2.0General-purpose, CNCF-graduated policy engine for enforcing authorization, compliance, and configuration rules as code across microservices, APIs, Kubernetes, and CI pipelines.
- DevOps
OpenFGA
Apache-2.0Relationship-based authorization engine inspired by Google Zanzibar, for modeling and enforcing fine-grained access control as a standalone service.
- Authentication & Security
Podman
Apache-2.0Daemonless container engine that runs, builds, and manages containers as a drop-in Docker alternative, without a background root service.
- Developer Tools
RabbitMQ
MPL-2.0Mature, widely deployed message broker for decoupling services with reliable queues, routing, and pub/sub messaging across AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP.
- Backend
Rook
Apache-2.0Kubernetes storage orchestrator that automates deploying, managing, and scaling storage systems like Ceph as native Kubernetes services.
- Storage
SuperTokens
Apache-2.0Open-source, self-hosted authentication core service offering passwordless, social, and email/password login as an alternative to Auth0 or Firebase Auth.
- Authentication & Security
Zitadel
AGPL-3.0Cloud-native identity and access management platform with multi-tenancy, SSO, MFA, and OIDC/SAML support, usable self-hosted or as a managed service.
- Authentication & Security