Provides a production-ready service mesh, built on the open-source Linkerd project and powered by Rust, to secure and optimize Kubernetes applications. It enables zero trust network security, FIPS-validated encryption in transit, and ultra-high availability across multi-cluster environments, reducing latency, cutting cloud costs, and eliminating single points of failure.
Funding
$24M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Kubernetes environments often lack built-in mechanisms for securing, observing, and reliably routing traffic between services, leading to increased complexity and potential vulnerabilities. Existing service mesh solutions can be overly complex, resource-intensive, and difficult to manage, hindering adoption and increasing operational overhead.
Solution
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd provides a production-ready service mesh solution designed to address the challenges of securing and managing Kubernetes applications. Built on the open-source Linkerd project and powered by Rust, it offers features such as zero-trust network security, FIPS-validated encryption in transit, and ultra-high availability across multi-cluster environments. The solution aims to reduce latency, optimize network costs, and eliminate single points of failure, all while maintaining simplicity and ease of use.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes enterprise platform engineers, SREs, and architects responsible for managing and securing Kubernetes environments who require a robust, easy-to-use service mesh solution.
Features
- Zero-trust network security with workload identity, end-to-end encryption, and deny-by-default security policies
- FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated encryption in transit for sensitive workloads
- Ultra-high availability with automated failover, real-time latency-aware load balancing, and cross-cluster traffic management
- Network optimization and cost savings through zone-aware routing and application load balancer decommissioning
- Support for HTTP/2, gRPC, and raw TCP streams for versatile traffic management
- Automated lifecycle management for simplified installation, upgrades, and maintenance
- Lightweight Rust-based data plane proxy for enhanced security and performance
- Integration with the Gateway API for standardized traffic routing and management