# NGINX Service Mesh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nginx-service-mesh/  
**Website:** https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-service-mesh/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 12.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane API** — 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, traffi...

## Security (1)

- **Nginx Service Mesh Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Nginx Service Mesh Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Container Networking, End of Sale, F5, Kubernetes, mTLS, NGINX, Observability, Service Mesh, SMI, Traffic Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/nginx-service-mesh/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.