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# Enterprise-grade service mesh for
development and governance

Connect, manage, and secure workloads across any environment and platform. Reduce developer time to value by managing boilerplate work for retries, service-to-service encryption, chaos engineering and service discovery.

[Book Demo](/contact-sales)Book Demo[Get Started](/products/kong-konnect/register)Get Started

## Modern environments get complicated.
Kong simplifies things.

### Secure

Apply consistent security standards and governance across all services and locations from a single control plane.

### Resilient

Achieve uptime goals with intelligent failover and deep observability.

### Flexible

Deploy confidently and efficiently with a single solution anywhere you want to run.

## Why Kong Mesh?

**Kong Mesh simplifies cross-zone connectivity, security, observability, and compliance for Platform Operators, and reduces time to value for your developers.**

## 01/ Simplicity

## More time developing, less worrying about infrastructure

  • - Use Mesh features to handle retry logic, observability and chaos engineering at the platform layer.
  • - Seamlessly integrate with CI/CD pipelines and eliminate drift with declarative configuration
  • - Speed up time to value with a mesh built to operate everywhere from day one.

## 02/ Flexibility

## Deploy microservices confidently

  • - Consistently apply authentication, API security, and traffic control policies across all services in one-click.
  • - Deploy Kong Mesh anywhere: on Kubernetes, in the cloud, on-premises, with containers or on virtual machines.
[Learn More](https://docs.konghq.com/mesh/latest/quickstart/kubernetes-demo/)Learn More

## 03/ Resiliency

## Reduce complexity

  • - Gain one-click control across service mesh environments with out-of-the-box policies for connectivity, observability, and security.
  • - Easily install and manage through Kong Konnect — the industry’s first unified SaaS control plane.
[Learn More](https://docs.konghq.com/mesh/latest/introduction/how-kong-mesh-works/)Learn More

## 04/ Resilient

## Ensure continuity

  • - Speed up reliability testing with a Circuit Breaker policy to test failures in a controlled manner.
  • - Reduce risk when you enable locality aware routing to route traffic effortlessly across multiple Kubernetes clusters or environments and roll out upgrades without disruption. 
[Learn More](https://youtu.be/zlM2TYk8vs8)Learn More

## 05/ Security

## Zero-trust security across all Mesh deployments

  • - Achieve Zero Trust by default with authentication, authorization, and encryption technologies with a couple of clicks or a single command line entry. 
  • - Get time back and reduce errors with automated security deployments and updates. Eliminate tedious, error-prone manual tasks by leveraging built-in configuration management.
[Learn More](https://docs.konghq.com/mesh/latest/policies/mutual-tls/)Learn More

## 06/ Observability

## Gain real-time visibility into all services

  • - Gain deep insights into application usability with metrics such as error rate and latency for each service.
  • - Improve your security posture with a centralized management plane that aids in the secure deployment, timely audit, and application of security updates.
[Learn More](https://docs.konghq.com/mesh/latest/explore/observability/)Learn More

## Customers on Kong Mesh

## Moderna

[With Kong] we created a scalable, highly reliable platform for our web applications that has a security-first mindset.

Nathaniel Reynolds
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Associate Director of Informatics Architecture & DevOps
[Learn More](/blog/enterprise/service-mesh-success-with-moderna)Learn More

## MS3

We chose Kong Mesh because we needed a solution that allows our customers to support Kubernetes and virtual machines, while providing an easier path to migrating between the two.

Aaron Weikle
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Chief Executive Officer
[Read the Case Study](/resources/case-study/ms3-selects-kong-mesh-to-power-its-next-gen-integration-platform)Read the Case Study

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## Grupo Globo

...Kong Mesh is a critical aspect of our architecture, for both zero-trust security and observability and monitoring.

Charles Boicey
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CIO
[Learn More](/blog/enterprise/clearsense-healthcare-kong-gateway-kuma)Learn More

## Resources

[View all Resources](/resources)View all Resources
_Docs_
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Explore Kong Mesh Documentation

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Explore Kong Mesh Documentation

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_ebook_
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API Gateways vs. Service Mesh

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API Gateways vs. Service Mesh

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_Webinar_
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Unifying Service Mesh and API Gateway with Kong Konnect

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Unifying Service Mesh and API Gateway with Kong Konnect

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