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Networking &
Service Mesh

We wire your services together so traffic is secure, observable, and resilient by default. From VPCs and ingress gateways to a full Istio mesh, connectivity becomes a platform capability instead of code scattered across every service.

See Zero-Trust mTLS
Sidecar proxies mTLS everywhere Live telemetry
mesh · production
100% mTLS
gateway
web
api
auth
cart
pay
orders
42ms
p99 latency
99.98%
success rate
18.4k
req / sec
Why A Mesh

Stop Rewriting The Network In Every Service.

Without a mesh

Every service reimplements retries, TLS, and timeouts. Connections sprawl into an N-squared mess, and one team's bug becomes everyone's outage.

Retry logic×NTLS certs×NTimeouts×NTracing×NLoad balancing×NCircuit breaker×N
With a service mesh
mesh

A sidecar proxy rides beside each service and takes over the network. Policy is set once, centrally, and applied to every request without touching application code.

mTLS×1Traffic policy×1Retries×1Observability×1
Traffic Architecture

North-South And East-West, One Fabric.

We design the whole path a request takes: through the edge and ingress gateway into the cluster, sideways between your services, and safely back out through controlled egress.

Ingress
Internet
WAF · LB
Gateway
East-West · service-to-service
service mesh
webproxy
apiproxy
authproxy
cartproxy
searchproxy
payproxy
mTLS on every hop
Egress
Egress GW
Policy
3rd-party APIs

North-South traffic

Everything entering and leaving the cluster. Ingress gateways terminate TLS, enforce auth, and rate-limit; egress gateways control exactly which external endpoints your services can reach.

East-West traffic

Service-to-service calls inside the mesh. Sidecars handle discovery, load balancing, mTLS, and routing, so internal traffic is encrypted and shaped without app changes.

What The Mesh Gives You

Three Jobs, Handled Off Your Code.

01

Connect

Intelligent traffic control so requests always find a healthy instance on the shortest path.

  • Service discovery & client-side load balancing
  • Ingress & egress gateway configuration
  • Weighted, header, and path-based routing
  • Locality-aware and failover routing
02

Secure

Zero-trust between services. Identity, encryption, and policy enforced at every hop.

  • Automatic mutual TLS with rotating certs
  • SPIFFE workload identity
  • Authorization policies per service & route
  • Namespace and network segmentation
03

Observe

The mesh emits golden signals for free, turning your network into a live, queryable map.

  • Latency, traffic, errors & saturation
  • Distributed tracing across service hops
  • Live service dependency graph
  • Per-route metrics and access logs
Zero-Trust Security

Every Call Proves Who It Is.

No service trusts another by default. The mesh gives each workload a cryptographic identity and encrypts every hop, so a breach in one service cannot quietly talk to the rest of your estate.

01Present Identity

Each sidecar sends its SPIFFE workload certificate.

02Verify & Key Exchange

Certs are checked against the mesh CA, session keys negotiated.

03mTLS Tunnel Up

All traffic is now mutually authenticated and encrypted.

04Authorization Check

The request is matched against per-service allow policies.

service-a proxy
negotiating…
service-b proxy
# authorization-policy.yaml
action: ALLOW
from: service-ato: service-b
when: mtls.enabled == true
evaluating policy
Resilience Toolkit

Failure Is Contained, Not Forwarded.

client request guarded by the sidecarhealthy service

Timeouts

Every hop gets a deadline, so a single slow dependency can never hold the whole call chain hostage.

timeout: 2s

Retries & Budgets

Transient failures are retried automatically, capped by a budget so retries never amplify into a storm.

retries: 3 · budget 20%

Circuit Breaking

When an upstream starts failing, the breaker trips and fails fast, giving the service room to recover.

5xx > 50% → open

Outlier Ejection

Unhealthy instances are pulled from the load-balancing pool automatically and probed back in when well.

eject after 5 errors
The Stack We Run

Vendor-Neutral, Right Tool Per Layer.

We stay independent and pick the right tool at each layer, from the control plane to the proxies, edge, and observability.

Istio logo
Istio
Linkerd logo
Linkerd
Consul logo
Consul
Cilium logo
Cilium
Why Plaxonic

The Route From Tangle To Fabric.

Four hops, every one owned end to end. This is how a Plaxonic engagement gets your network from scattered and brittle to a single, governed fabric.

$ traceroute your-platform
1
hop 1 · map0.4ms

We start from your real traffic

Before touching config, we capture your actual call graph and dependencies, so the mesh reflects how your services really talk, not a reference diagram.

2
hop 2 · adopt0.9ms

Incremental rollout, low overhead

We onboard namespace by namespace with tuned sidecars, using ambient or per-pod modes where each fits, so you get the mesh without a latency tax or a big-bang cutover.

3
hop 3 · secure0.6ms

Security you can actually prove

mTLS and authorization policies ship as version-controlled code with audit trails, so compliance sees exactly who can talk to whom, and why.

4
hop 4 · handover0.5ms

Your team owns it after us

Runbooks, dashboards, and policy-as-code are documented and handed over, so your engineers extend the mesh confidently long after we roll off.

reached production · 0% loss
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions.

Still have questions?

Our networking engineers are happy to talk specifics.

Talk to an Expert

It depends on scale. A handful of services rarely need a full mesh, and we will tell you so. Once you have many services making internal calls and you need consistent mTLS, traffic control, and observability across all of them, a mesh stops that logic from being copy-pasted into every service. We help you decide honestly, and start lean if a full mesh is premature.

Make Your Network A Platform Capability

Tell us how your services talk today. We will map the traffic, design the mesh, and roll it out without downtime, so connectivity stops being everyone's side project.