Modernize and connect your infrastructure
A universal networking layer for Kubernetes, virtual machines, and physical servers across cloud, on-premises, and edge.
Networking
Universal connectivity
Eliminate networking silos and accelerate application delivery by creating a single, unified network fabric.
Security
Modern zero-trust security
Minimize your attack surface and prevent lateral movement with transparent encryption, micro-segmentation, and identity-based authentication.
Observability
End-to-end visibility
Monitor all workloads across your infrastructure for detailed, real-time insights and improve application performance.
The future of connectivity
Multi-cloud
Consistent networking across cloud providers
Unify network, observability, and security features in a single, scalable solution across multiple environments.
Apply advanced network policies for highly available production infrastructure, and segment workloads with identity-aware policies.
Connect
Across Kubernetes, VMs, and edge
Enable seamless communication between modern and legacy applications. Accelerate your digital transformation and maximize the value of your existing infrastructure.
Isovalent delivers one network that spans clusters, cloud environments, and traditional servers, connecting workloads across complex infrastructures. The Isovalent transit gateway brings the leading networking standards to high-throughput production applications, wherever they live.
Optimize
Simplify all network operations
Isovalent Mesh is the leading multi-cluster solution for Kubernetes, and applies consistent network policies, encryption, routing, and load balancing across applications.
Reduce operational overhead and free up your team to focus on innovation. No more policy blackboxes or translating rules across providers. Isovalent makes it easy to create uniform rulesets that work natively with the top cloud providers out-of-the-box.
Monitoring
Streamlined performance and reliability
Minimize disruptions and validate optimal application performance with proactive monitoring and automated remediation.
Isovalent's Mesh Networking provides real-time tracking of application behavior and dependencies, surfacing insights to optimize performance. With automated fault detection and diagnostics, platform teams streamline troubleshooting and quickly resolve issues while minimizing disruptions.
Support
Enterprise support, ecosystem, and solution architecture
Enterprise support by the creators of Cilium and one of the most active companies in the cloud native and Kubernetes space. Isovalent Enterprise features a rich ecosystem including deep partnerships with all major cloud providers and full certification on Red Hat OpenShift.
Features
Benefits of Mesh Networking
Universal connectivity
Connect Kubernetes, VMs, and physical servers across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Central Control Plane
Mesh multiple clusters with a distributed Kubernetes API control plane for secure, scalable connectivity.
Isovalent transit gateway
Deploy a virtual gateway for secure networking across cloud and on-prem networks.
Layer 7 load balancer
Manage advanced Layer 7 traffic with features across transparent encryption, Canary Rollouts, and eBPF-powered observability.
Ingress and egress gateways
Securely route external traffic into and out of Kubernetes environments.
BGP and SRv6
Dynamic routing and segment routing for scalable, IPv6-based networks.
Service mesh
Deliver load balancing, tracing, and secure communication using standard Kubernetes APIs.
Cluster mesh
Multi-cluster networking with overlapping IP addresses and SRv6 overlay.
Egress gateway high-availability
Deploy highly available egress gateways to ensure uninterrupted traffic flow and reliability.
Standalone ingress & load balancer
Operates independently of Kubernetes, supporting L3-L7 load balancing.
Identity-based security
Enable zero-trust security with distributed firewalling, micro-segmentation, and cryptographically-verifiable identity for authentication.
Runtime security
Security observability and enforcement, all in-kernel to enrich SIEMs with deep network and runtime data.
DevOps & GitOps alignment
Optimized for automated deployment and API-based configuration, supporting modern DevOps practices.
Network policy enforcement
Layer robust network policies to secure traffic flows and manage access controls effectively.
Deep observability
Extends Cilium’s eBPF-based observability stack to existing infrastructures, supporting integration with preferred SIEM’s or visualization tools.
Thomas Graf
Creator of Cilium and Isovalent Founder
“Cilium Mesh is a new universal networking layer to connect workloads and machines across cloud, on-prem, and edge. It consists of a Kubernetes networking component (CNI), a multi-cluster connectivity plane (Cluster Mesh), and a transit gateway to connect with existing networks.”
Resources
Learn more on Mesh Networking
Cilium Cluster Mesh
In this lab, you will learn how to set up Cilium Cluster Mesh, and the benefits from such an architecture.
Roche Improves Medical Device Management at the Edge with Isovalent and Cilium
Learn how Roche worked with Isovalent and deployed Cilium Service Mesh to improve Medical Device Management at the Edge.
Cilium Mesh - One Mesh to Connect Them All
Cilium Mesh - One Mesh to Connect Them All. Connect Kubernetes, VMs, and Servers across Cloud, On-Prem, and Edge.