Kmesh

Sidecarless service mesh data plane implemented with eBPF in the kernel.

Provider: default
Kind: Service mesh
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://kmesh.net/docs/

Properties · 3 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
circuitBreaking	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
controlPlanes	integer	—	no	—	▸ 1
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
mode · component property	enum	kernel-native \| dual-engine	no	dual-engine	inherited
mtls	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
retries	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
sidecar	boolean	—	no	true	▸ false
xdsControlPlane · component property	enum	istiod	no	istiod	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "kmesh", component: "kmesh" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Kmesh: sidecarless service mesh data plane implemented with eBPF in the kernel. Per the Kmesh
3# README traffic management, security and monitoring are applied without an application-side proxy
4# and without a per-pod sidecar, and it consumes xDS configuration from an Istio control plane.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "kmesh"
8kind: "service-mesh"
9provider: "default"
10docs: "https://kmesh.net/docs/"
11defaults:
12  managed: false
13  sidecar: false
14  controlPlanes: 1
15properties:
16  mode:
17    type: "enum"
18    values: ["kernel-native", "dual-engine"]
19    default: "dual-engine"
20  xdsControlPlane:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["istiod"]
23    default: "istiod"

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/kmesh.md