# 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.
## Modern environments get complicated.
Kong simplifies things.
Apply consistent security standards and governance across all services and locations from a single control plane.
Achieve uptime goals with intelligent failover and deep observability.
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.**
## 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.
## 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.
## 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.
## 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.
## 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.
## 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.
## Resources
## Kong Mesh FAQs
Questions teams ask before adopting a service mesh
What is a service mesh, and what does Kong Mesh do?
A service mesh manages service-to-service connectivity, security, and observability at the platform layer. Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh that helps you connect, manage, and secure workloads across environments while handling common tasks such as retries, encryption, and service discovery.
When should I use a service mesh?
Consider a service mesh when your services need consistent security, traffic control, and visibility across multiple environments or locations. Kong Mesh helps platform teams manage these requirements centrally, reducing the infrastructure work developers need to handle.
Does Kong Mesh require Kubernetes?
No. Kong Mesh supports Kubernetes, containers, and virtual machines, with deployment options in the cloud and on-premises. This flexibility lets you apply consistent policies across services running in different environments.
How does Kong Mesh secure service-to-service communication?
Kong Mesh supports zero-trust security through authentication, authorization, and service-to-service encryption. You can apply consistent security standards across services and locations from a single control plane,
How does Kong Mesh help improve service reliability?
Kong Mesh provides retry logic, intelligent failover, and locality-aware routing to help services meet uptime goals. It also supports controlled failure testing through its Circuit Breaker policy and routing across multiple Kubernetes clusters or environments to help reduce disruption during upgrades.
What visibility does Kong Mesh provide into service performance?
Kong Mesh provides real-time visibility into services, including metrics such as error rates and latency. These insights help teams understand service performance, while centralized management supports security audits and timely security updates.
How does Kong Mesh reduce work for developers?
Kong Mesh handles common infrastructure tasks — including retries, observability, and service-to-service encryption — at the platform layer. This gives developers more time to focus on application functionality rather than implementing these capabilities themselves.
How can platform teams manage Kong Mesh across environments?
Platform teams can install and manage Kong Mesh through Kong Konnect’s Mesh Manager, a unified SaaS control plane. Built-in policies provide centralized control over connectivity, observability, and security, while declarative configuration integrates with CI/CD pipelines and helps eliminate configuration drift.