The runtime is the mesh.

No proxies — and still all the value of a service mesh.

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Core Features

GUI

Provides control-plane overview, metrics, and log views.

Application-transparent

Label a namespace to join the mesh.

Ultra-high performance

Zero proxy hops on the request path eliminate the dedicated resource footprint and forwarding latency of a sidecar.

A Novel Gateway Data Plane

  • Traditional applications and AI Agents connect through the same gateway data plane
  • Traditional application routes are delivered dynamically through xDS, while AI routes are declared through static configuration; the two routing configurations remain independent

Runs on Kubernetes or VMs

Choose to run it in a cluster or independently on any host.

  • Extend the mesh beyond the cluster with a single declarative configuration
  • VMs, bare-metal hosts, and other off-cluster workloads join as service endpoints, sharing service discovery and traffic governance with in-cluster services
# Define the stable mesh service
apiVersion: networking.dubbo.apache.org/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
  name: payment
spec:
  hosts:
    - payment.mesh.local
  ports:
    - name: grpc
      number: 50051
      protocol: GRPC
  workloadSelector:
    matchLabels:
      app: payment

Scales to Zero When Idle

An idle service costs nothing; the first request brings it back.

  • A request for a service with no endpoints is held rather than failed, and replayed once the workload is ready
  • Replica counts stay with the autoscaler, so a workload is never driven by two controllers at once
  • Once endpoints are back, calls go straight to the workload again and the activation path steps aside

Aligned with the Mainstream Cloud Native Ecosystem

Kubernetes Gateway API Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Zipkin Jaeger