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Gloo Mesh

Gloo Mesh is Solo.io's enterprise service mesh management platform, built on Istio and shipped as Kubernetes software you run in your own clusters. It provides multi-cluster and multi-mesh traffic management, security policy enforcement, workload identity and observability, with a management plane in one cluster and relay-connected agents in each workload cluster. Its API surface is not an HTTP endpoint but 70 Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions across 13 API groups — AccessPolicy, JWTPolicy, RateLimitPolicy, RouteTable, VirtualDestination, VirtualGateway, Workspace and the rest — each carrying an OpenAPI v3 structural schema and CEL validation rules, generated from 92 public protobuf definitions. Solo.io distributes it as the gloo-platform Helm charts and the meshctl CLI, documents it at docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise, and runs an unauthenticated remote MCP server over its documentation corpus.

Gloo Mesh publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Istio, Kubernetes, Multi-Cluster, Open-Source, and Service Mesh.

Gloo Mesh’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, support, pricing, and 34 more developer resources.

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48.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware self hosted Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
IstioKubernetesMulti-ClusterOpen-SourceService MeshEnvoyKubernetes CRDsProtobufPolicy EnforcementObservability

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 48.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 5.7 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 13.7 / 17
Access Clarity 8.5 / 17
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11
Contract Governance 0.5 / 10
Discoverability 6.5 / 9
Regulatory Posture 7.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Gloo Mesh Enterprise

Gloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-09-09) is a service mesh management platform built on Istio that provid...

Gloo Mesh Core

Gloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle management for upstream Istio. Solo.io has RETIRED the standalone Gloo Mesh ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Solo.io - Docs MCP

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Gloo Mesh Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Gloo Mesh Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Gloo Mesh Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Gloo Mesh Authentication

kubernetes-rbac/mutual-tls/license-key/oidc · 5 schemes

SECURITY

Gloo Mesh Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Gloo Mesh Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Gloo Mesh Trust Center

trust center published

SECURITY

Kubernetes CRDs 16

Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions published by this provider.

gloo mesh admin gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh apimanagement gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh crd index

CRD

gloo mesh extauth solo io v1 crds

CRD

gloo mesh extensions policy gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh gatewaylifecyclemanagers admin gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh infrastructure gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh install istio io v1alpha1 crds

CRD

gloo mesh internal gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh istiolifecyclemanagers admin gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh networking gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh observability policy gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh ratelimit solo io v1alpha1 crds

CRD

gloo mesh resilience policy gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh security policy gloo solo io crds

CRD

gloo mesh trafficcontrol policy gloo solo io crds

CRD

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Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security
Security
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 Deprecation
Deprecation
 Community
Community
 Support
Support
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter
 RateLimits
RateLimits

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Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Protobuf
Protobuf
 x-KubernetesCRD
x-KubernetesCRD
 HelmChart
HelmChart

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: gloo-mesh
name: Gloo Mesh
description: Gloo Mesh is Solo.io's enterprise service mesh management platform, built on Istio and shipped as Kubernetes
  software you run in your own clusters. It provides multi-cluster and multi-mesh traffic management, security policy enforcement,
  workload identity and observability, with a management plane in one cluster and relay-connected agents in each workload
  cluster. Its API surface is not an HTTP endpoint but 70 Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions across 13 API groups — AccessPolicy,
  JWTPolicy, RateLimitPolicy, RouteTable, VirtualDestination, VirtualGateway, Workspace and the rest — each carrying an OpenAPI
  v3 structural schema and CEL validation rules, generated from 92 public protobuf definitions. Solo.io distributes it as
  the gloo-platform Helm charts and the meshctl CLI, documents it at docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise, and runs an unauthenticated
  remote MCP server over its documentation corpus.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted software · you run it in your own Kubernetes clusters
  confidence: high
  source:
  - pricing
  - crd
  - packages
  generated: '2026-09-12'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: contact-sales
  onboarding: sales-led
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Contact sales · no published price list
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-12'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gloo-mesh.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-04-28'
modified: '2026-09-12'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Istio
- Kubernetes
- Multi-Cluster
- Open-Source
- Service Mesh
- Envoy
- Kubernetes CRDs
- Protobuf
- Policy Enforcement
- Observability
tags_raw:
- Istio
- Kubernetes
- Multi-Cluster
- Open Source
- Service Mesh
- Envoy
- Kubernetes CRDs
- Protobuf
- Policy Enforcement
- Observability
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gloo-mesh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-api-base:
  verdict: no-usable-base
  templated: true
  note: 'repair-api-bases.py returns no-usable-base for this provider and that verdict is correct, not a gap. Gloo Mesh has
    no Solo.io-operated HTTP host: its API is served by the CUSTOMER''s own Kubernetes API server, so the baseURL on each
    api entry is deliberately templated (https://{kubernetes-api-server}/apis/). The previous baseURL values were docs.solo.io
    documentation URLs standing in for an API host. The 13 API group paths under that base are listed in crd/gloo-mesh-crd-index.yml.'
apis:
- aid: gloo-mesh:gloo-mesh-enterprise
  name: Gloo Mesh Enterprise
  description: Gloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-09-09)
    is a service mesh management platform built on Istio that provides intra-mesh and multi-cluster routing, access policies,
    JWT authentication, external auth, rate limiting, mTLS and workload identity, fault injection, failover, progressive delivery
    and observability. Its contract is 70 Kubernetes CustomResource Definitions across 13 API groups, generated from 92 published
    proto3 definitions (591 messages, 45 enums, 2 gRPC services). It is deployed with the gloo-platform Helm charts and managed
    with the meshctl CLI; every write is a declarative Kubernetes apply, validated at admission and reporting an ApprovalState
    on the resource status.
  humanURL: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/
  baseURL: https://{kubernetes-api-server}/apis/
  tags:
  - Istio
  - Kubernetes
  - Multi-Cluster
  - Service Mesh
  - Kubernetes CRDs
  - Protobuf
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/getting_started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/api/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/changelog/release-notes/
  - type: Protobuf
    url: grpc/gloo-mesh-proto-index.yml
  - type: x-KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/gloo-mesh-crd-index.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/solo-io/solo-apis/tree/gloo-mesh-v2.13.x/api
- aid: gloo-mesh:gloo-mesh-core
  name: Gloo Mesh Core
  description: Gloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle management
    for upstream Istio. Solo.io has RETIRED the standalone Gloo Mesh Core documentation set — docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-core/
    now redirects to docs.solo.io/istio-core/, which returns 404 (probed 2026-09-12) — and folded the capability into the
    product it markets as Solo Enterprise for Istio, whose live docs are at docs.solo.io/istio/. The Istio insights engine,
    the analyzer pipeline and the Gloo UI insights view are documented today inside the Gloo Mesh Enterprise doc set. This
    entry is retained with live pointers rather than dead ones; three dead documentation URLs were removed from it.
  humanURL: https://www.solo.io/products/istio
  baseURL: https://{kubernetes-api-server}/apis/
  tags:
  - Istio
  - Kubernetes
  - Service Mesh
  - Insights
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.solo.io/istio/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/observability/tools/insights/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/getting_started/single/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.solo.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/getting_started/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.solo.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/solo-io
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/changelog/release-notes/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/gloo-mesh-changelog.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/reference/version/versions/
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gloo-mesh-lifecycle.yml
- type: Community
  url: https://slack.solo.io/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.solo.io/company/get-support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://support.solo.io/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.solo.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.solo.io/get-started
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.solo.io/#website-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.solo.io/#privacy-policy
- type: Security
  url: https://www.solo.io/security
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.solo.io/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/gloo-mesh-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gloo-mesh-domain-security.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.solo.io/partners
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/gloo-mesh-proto-index.yml
- type: x-KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/gloo-mesh-crd-index.yml
- type: HelmChart
  url: https://storage.googleapis.com/gloo-platform/helm-charts/index.yaml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/gloo-mesh-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gloo-mesh-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gloo-mesh-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/gloo-mesh-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/gloo-mesh-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/gloo-mesh-sandbox.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gloo-mesh-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gloo-mesh-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/gloo-mesh-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gloo-mesh-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gloo-mesh-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gloo-mesh-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/gloo-mesh-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/gloo-mesh-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/gloo-mesh-finops.yml
integrations:
- name: Partner with Solo.io
- name: AWS logo
- name: Google cloud logo
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: gloo
x-relationship: product
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 128
  pass: local-v3

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