The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a specification for service meshes, with a focus on those that run on Kubernetes. It defines a common standard that can be implemented by a variety of providers. This allows for both standardization for end-users and innovation by providers of Service Mesh Technology. SMI enables flexibility and interoperability, and covers the most common service mesh capabilities.
The following documents are available:
Latest Release | |
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Core Specification: | |
SMI Specification | v0.6.0 |
Specification Components | |
Traffic Access Control | v1alpha3 |
Traffic Metrics | v1alpha1 |
Traffic Specs | v1alpha4 |
Traffic Split | v1alpha4 |
- Consul Connect*: service segmentation (consul.io/docs/connect)
- Flagger: progressive delivery operator (flagger.app)
- Gloo Mesh: Multi-cluster service mesh management plane (solo.io/products/gloo-mesh)
- Istio*: connect, secure, control, observe (servicemeshinterface/smi-adapter-istio)
- Linkerd: ultralight service mesh (linkerd.io)
- Traefik Mesh: simpler service mesh (traefik.io/traefik-mesh)
- Meshery: the service mesh management plane (layer5.io/meshery)
- Rio: application deployment engine (rio.io)
- Open Service Mesh: lightweight and extensible cloud native service mesh (openservicemesh.io)
- Argo Rollouts: advanced deployment & progressive delivery controller (argoproj.io)
* via adaptor
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Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on contributing to the specification.
Whether you are a user or contributor, you can open issues on GitHub:
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