NGINX Service Mesh

aid: nginx-service-mesh
name: NGINX Service Mesh
description: NGINX Service Mesh (NSM) is a service mesh from F5 NGINX powered by NGINX Plus, designed to manage container-to-container
  traffic in Kubernetes environments. It provides mTLS, traffic policies via the Service Mesh Interface (SMI), traffic splitting,
  rate limiting, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), and integration with NGINX Plus Ingress Controller. NGINX Service
  Mesh exposes a control-plane REST API and a `nginx-meshctl` CLI for installation, sidecar injection, certificate management,
  and policy configuration. The upstream GitHub repository is archived; F5 announced End of Sale (EoS) for the NGINX Microservices
  Bundle as of July 1, 2023, and the project's successor for ingress and L7 routing is NGINX Gateway Fabric.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Container Networking
- End of Sale
- F5
- Kubernetes
- mTLS
- NGINX
- Observability
- Service Mesh
- SMI
- Traffic Management
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nginx-service-mesh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-04-28'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: nginx-service-mesh:control-plane-api
  name: NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane API
  description: The NGINX Service Mesh control plane exposes a REST API used by the `nginx-meshctl` CLI to manage mesh configuration,
    sidecar injection, certificate authority operations, traffic policies, and resource lookups. The API is internal to the
    cluster and is not published as a public OpenAPI document; its surface is documented through the API Usage guide and the
    `nginx-meshctl` reference.
  humanURL: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/api-usage/
  tags:
  - API
  - Control Plane
  - Kubernetes
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/api-usage/
  - type: CLIReference
    url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/reference/nginx-meshctl/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-service-mesh
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/get-started/
- type: Architecture
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/about/architecture/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-service-mesh
- type: Successor
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-gateway-fabric/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.f5.com/company/blog/nginx
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.nginx.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com