Comparison

Azure Service Mesh vs Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

No leader: the top candidate Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh has only 0.26 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Azure Service Mesh29
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51
Score
Vioscale score
Azure Service Mesh29 / 100low · 4%
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51 / 100low · 26%
Pricing
Model
Azure Service Meshopen_source
Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshcommercial
Price level
Azure Service Meshfree
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Integrations
Count
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh8
Security
Disclosure policy
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Reliability
Status page
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for service mesh. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Architecture
Data plane
Azure Service MeshSidecar
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshSidecar
Proxy
Azure Service MeshEnvoy
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshEnvoy
Security
Automatic mutual TLS
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
SPIFFE / SPIRE identity
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Traffic
Traffic splitting / canary
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Fault injection / resilience
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Scale
Multi-cluster federation
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Portability
VM support (beyond Kubernetes)
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Observability
Built-in observability
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Standards
Gateway API / GAMMA support
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Extensibility
WASM extensibility
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Compliance
FIPS mode
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
Azure Service MeshGraduated
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition
Azure Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Azure Service Mesh

Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that provides observability, traffic management, and security capabilities for distributed microservices architectures.

Independently observed

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Azure Service Mesh

Open source
as of verify ↗

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Self-hosted
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
On-premise
Azure Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Azure Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

8 total
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Kiali
  • Red Hat Connectivity Link
  • Red Hat OpenShift Observability
  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenShift Gitops
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.