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Arjun Pandey
Provides a unique advantage by offering a global view for all workloads and clusters within the mesh but lack of a robust community for open-source support
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    Top Answer:It is a scalable product.
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    Top Answer:I have tried for my personal research and all those things. I have tried only the open-source version. So, for me, it was always free.
    What needs improvement with Kong Mesh?
    Top Answer:There are a number of areas where Kong Kuma can improve. One is in terms of product delivery, such as Helm charts. There are a lot of gaps in the Helm charts currently. Another is in terms of the… more »
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    Overview

    Kong Mesh is the ultimate universal service mesh designed for enterprise organizations, offering simplicity and scalability with Kuma and Envoy technologies. This cloud-native solution is versatile, deployable on Kubernetes, VMware, and various environments. Kong Mesh excels in ease of installation, configuration, and management, making it a top choice for organizations seeking streamlined service mesh implementation. With robust features like fine-grained traffic control, observability tools for in-depth monitoring, and comprehensive security mechanisms such as authentication and encryption, Kong Mesh ensures that microservices are both secure and high-performing. Its multi-zone and multi-mesh support allow for distributed deployments, making it a flexible and powerful choice for those looking to enhance their service infrastructure.

    Designed to be lightweight and seamless, NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise class solution that enables users to take control of Kubernetes with a turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

    NGINX Service Mesh provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.

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    First AbuDhabi Bank, CISCO, Papa johns pizza, Samsung, Expedia
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Manufacturing Company5%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%

    Kong Mesh is ranked 3rd in Service Mesh with 1 review while NGINX Service-Mesh is ranked 4th in Service Mesh. Kong Mesh is rated 6.0, while NGINX Service-Mesh is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Kong Mesh writes "Provides a unique advantage by offering a global view for all workloads and clusters within the mesh but lack of a robust community for open-source support". On the other hand, Kong Mesh is most compared with Istio, Envoy, HashiCorp Consul, Traefik Enterprise and AWS App Mesh, whereas NGINX Service-Mesh is most compared with Istio, Envoy, HashiCorp Consul, AWS App Mesh and VMware Tanzu Service Mesh.

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