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Categories/DevOps & CI/CD/Buoyant
Buoyant

Buoyant

Founded 2015

Manage Kubernetes service mesh traffic with automatic mutual TLS encryption and request load balancing

You can use Buoyant to secure and direct network traffic across Kubernetes clusters without changing application code. The tool provides mutual TLS encryption by default, inspects latency and success rates, and handles per-request load balancing for gRPC protocols. It cuts cross-zone data transfer expenses through zonal routing controls and delivers FIPS-validated encryption builds for compliance audits. You can also run multi-cluster communications with federated services, manage pod failover across cloud providers, and isolate failing workloads using automated circuit breaking mechanisms.

What Buoyant does

Enable strict mutual TLS across Kubernetes podsConfigure per-request gRPC load balancingTrack request latency and error rates across microservicesSet up cross-zone traffic routing rulesRotate cryptographic trust anchors automaticallyConnect and federate workloads across multiple clustersApply automated circuit breaking to failing podsPer-request load balancing for gRPC traffic across meshed podsMutual TLS encryption enforced automatically without application code modificationsHigh availability zonal load balancing to reduce cross-zone data transfer feesFIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated cryptographic builds for compliance requirementsZero-instrumentation tracking of metrics like latency, requests, and failure ratesAutomated trust anchor rotation and credential managementMulti-cluster service federation and cross-cloud failover

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