
Tetrate Service Bridge
Tetrate Service Bridge is an Istio-based service mesh and control plane for connecting, monitoring, and securing microservices.
What Tetrate Service Bridge is
Tetrate Service Bridge is an Istio-based service mesh and control plane for connecting, monitoring, and securing microservices. It centralizes configuration and visibility for service-to-service communication across Kubernetes and traditional compute clusters, including application edges, cluster ingress, and links between workloads. A global management plane can manage Istio and Envoy across multi-cluster hybrid environments. Security capabilities include end-to-end mTLS, certificate management, identity-aware authorization, role-based access control, and tenant isolation. Traffic controls include routing, circuit breaking, locality-aware failover, canary releases, traffic shifting, and blue-green deployments. The platform also provides metrics, distributed tracing, topology views, service inventory, dashboards, and alerts. Tetrate lists hosted and customer-deployed management plane options; self-managed installation requires several infrastructure components, including Kubernetes, a registry, databases, Redis, an identity provider, and cert-manager. The product is paid, with pricing available on request, and has no free plan.
Good
- Central management across multi-cluster environments
- Includes mTLS and certificate management
- Supports traffic shifting and failover
- Provides metrics, tracing, and topology views
- Hosted or customer-deployed management plane
Watch out
- No free plan
- Pricing is available on request
- Self-managed setup has multiple infrastructure requirements
Who it suits
TSB is aimed at platform owners, application developers, and security administrators managing large multi-cluster, multi-tenant deployments. It suits organizations using Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or Google GCP that need service mesh management across hybrid environments.
Verdict
Tetrate Service Bridge combines service mesh management, traffic controls, security, and observability for hybrid multi-cluster deployments. Buyers should account for its paid, quote-based model and the requirements of a self-managed installation.
Plans and prices
From Tetrate Service Bridge's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Tetrate Service Bridge | Priced on request | enterprise-grade service mesh · hosted or on-premise |
The facts
Each one read from Tetrate Service Bridge's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- TSB is an Istio-based service mesh and control plane that unifies configuration, operation and visibility of service-to-service connectivity.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Audience
- Tetrate describes TSB as a platform for platform owners, application developers and security administrators managing large multi-cluster, multi-tenant deployments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- The product page says TSB supports compliance requirements including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR and FIPS/FedRAMP.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- The management plane can be hosted by Tetrate or deployed by the customer in its own Kubernetes infrastructure.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Tetrate lists AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, Equinix, Venafi, Arm, GitLab and Weaveworks as partners or integrations.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Management
- A global management plane centrally manages Istio and Envoy across multi-cluster hybrid environments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Observability
- TSB includes unified metrics, embedded distributed tracing, topology views, service inventory, dashboards and alerts.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Tetrate Service Bridge provides a uniform way to connect, monitor and secure microservices.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Requirements
- Self-managed installation requires Kubernetes, a private HTTPS Docker registry, a Tetrate repository account and API key, Docker Engine, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch or AWS OpenSearch, Redis, an identity provider and cert-manager.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- TSB provides end-to-end mTLS, certificate management, identity-aware authorization, RBAC and multi-tenant isolation.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- For hosted deployments, Tetrate applies updates and security fixes and manages scaling and availability incidents with its SRE team.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Traffic management
- The platform supports global routing, circuit breaking, locality-aware failover, canary releases, traffic shifting and blue-green deployments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Workloads
- TSB operates at application edges, cluster ingress and between workloads in Kubernetes and traditional compute clusters.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Zero trust
- TSB enforces zero trust by default with consistent policies, fine-grained access controls and auditability aligned with NIST standards.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Silicon Valleychecked 28 Sep 2026
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