The world's simplest Service Mesh that is FIPS-enabled for Kubernetes and Edge.

Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, an open source service mesh for Kubernetes and edge devices. Founded in 2015 by senior Twitter infrastructure engineers, Buoyant has helped countless organizations around the world provide security, reliability, and observability to their Kubernetes applications.

Software sold to the federal government often requires complying with standards such as FIPS 140-2 or FIPS 140-3; e.g. as part of a FedRAMP authorization process. For customers that run their applications on Kubernetes, Buoyant's enterprise version of the open source Linkerd service mesh, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, can be used to drop in encryption of data in transit to any Kubernetes application using FIPS-validated cryptographic modules, and all without requiring application changes. By offloading the work of encryption with FIPS-validated modules to the Linkerd service mesh rather than making developers responsible for implementing it, Buoyant customers see significantly faster times to achieving compliance goals such as FedRAMP ATO, and allow their developers to focus on the business logic of the application rather than the complexities of the standards.

Beyond the encryption of data in transit with FIPS-validated cryptographic modules, Buoyant's Linkerd service mesh also provides other critical security and reliability features to Kubernetes applications, including true zero-trust network security (microsegmentation); cross-cluster communication and failover; and uniform observability and reliability features such as latency-aware load balancing, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and more. Linkerd's underlying data plane implementation uses the memory-safe Rust programming language, giving you confidence that the vast array of buffer overflow exploits and other memory safety vulnerabilities will simply not be an issue.