Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Service discovery and a mesh that also spans virtual machines outside Kubernetes.
alternative to Linkerd
Istio
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
eBPF networking with a sidecar-free mesh; fewer traffic management features than Istio.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 26k
- Latest
- v1.20.2
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
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- 1.32.0-alpha.02026-10-05Istio 1.32.0-alpha.0pre-release
- 1.30.52026-09-21Istio 1.30.5
- 1.29.82026-09-21Istio 1.29.8
- 1.31.12026-09-21Istio 1.31.1
- 1.31.02026-08-31Istio 1.31.0
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- LinkerdmTLS, traffic management and telemetry, with sidecar or ambient modes built on Envoy.Full replacement