
Cilium 1.6: eBPF-Powered Service Security at Scale
Cilium 1.6 delivers cluster mesh, transparent encryption, and Hubble-powered observability for eBPF-based Kubernetes networking.

Cilium 1.6 delivers cluster mesh, transparent encryption, and Hubble-powered observability for eBPF-based Kubernetes networking.

Linkerd 2.0 rewrites the service mesh in Rust, adopting a sidecar model and Kubernetes-native configuration for better performance and simpler operations.

Istio 1.0 graduates the service mesh to production readiness with stable APIs, security hardening, and Kubernetes-native operations.

Envoy Proxy 1.7 focuses on resilient xDS discovery, improved gRPC/HTTP handling, and richer observability to anchor modern service meshes.

Cilium 1.0 graduates to production with Kubernetes policy enforcement, transparent encryption, and Envoy-powered L7 load-balancing built on eBPF.

Envoy 1.0 graduates with stable APIs, first-class Kubernetes integrations, and a thriving ecosystem of control planes like Istio, Lyft’s management server, and Ambassador.

Istio 0.1 debuts a full-featured service mesh built on Envoy, Pilot, Mixer and Citadel—bringing traffic management, observability and policy to Kubernetes.

Linkerd 1.0 establishes the first production-ready service mesh for Kubernetes, introducing transparent service-to-service communication, observability, and reliability features.

Envoy: A New High-Performance Proxy for Modern Infrastructure