# Service Mesh Interface (SMI)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh/service-mesh-interface/  
**Provider:** Service Mesh — https://apis.io/providers/service-mesh/  
**Documentation:** https://smi-spec.io/

Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is one of 5 APIs that [Service Mesh](https://apis.io/providers/service-mesh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Service Mesh, SMI, Standards, Kubernetes, and CNCF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

SMI is a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes. It defines common APIs for traffic policy, traffic telemetry, and traffic management so that applications work with any SMI-compatible service mesh. SMI is hosted by the CNCF.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://smi-spec.io/
- **GitHubOrganization** — https://github.com/servicemeshinterface

## Other Service Mesh APIs (4)

- [Istio API](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh/istio-api/)
- [Linkerd Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh/linkerd-api/)
- [Consul Connect / Service Mesh API](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh/consul-api/)
- [AWS App Mesh API](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh/aws-app-mesh-api/)

## Tags

Service Mesh, SMI, Standards, Kubernetes, CNCF

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