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mTLS

Score 17.0 / 100 5 providers +9 via APIs 15 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (5)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
SmallStepCompanyDeveloper ToolsCertificate AuthorityPKI1 API53.7BuoyantAI ObservabilityKubernetesLinkerd3 APIs52.6
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Consul ConnectConsulEnvoyHashiCorpIntentions1 API33.5LinkerdKubernetesObservabilitySecurity3 APIs35.9
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
NGINX Service MeshContainer NetworkingEnd of SaleF5Kubernetes1 API8.8

APIs with this tag (15)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...71.8
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...52.6Telia ACE Audio Stream Forwarding APIBidirectional streaming gRPC service over HTTP/2 that forwards copies of the audio streams in Telia ACE con...46.8
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Tetrate Service Bridge Security APIThe TSB Security API provides configuration resources for enforcing security policies in a Tetrate Service ...37.7Google Cloud Network Security APIThe Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh, including authorization policies...37.0Linkerd Multicluster APIThe Linkerd Multicluster extension provides Kubernetes CRDs and a gateway component that enables transparen...35.9Linkerd Proxy Control Plane APIThe Linkerd Proxy Control Plane gRPC API defines the protobuf service contracts used by the data-plane prox...35.9SPIFFE X.509 SVIDThe SPIFFE X.509 SVID (SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document) is a standard for encoding SPIFFE identities in...32.9Cielo Chargeback APIThe Cielo Chargeback API gives merchants programmatic access to dispute lifecycle management. It uses OAuth...32.7Cielo Pix APICielo Pix API exposes the Brazilian Central Bank's instant-payment rails on a Cielo-hosted endpoint. It imp...32.7Cielo Refunds APIThe Cielo Refunds API processes single and batch refund requests against captured transactions. Authenticat...32.7Gateway Connectivity APIConnection test to the API platform providing a basic message response, used to prove out a working request...28.5Istio APIIstio is the most widely deployed service mesh. Istio's control plane exposes APIs for traffic management (...27.0Linkerd Admin APILinkerd is a lightweight CNCF-graduated service mesh focused on simplicity and security. Linkerd exposes an...27.0PagBank Digital Certificate (mTLS) APIIssues digital certificates for mTLS authentication, layered on top of bearer-token auth for higher-trust i...26.8

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “mTLS” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Cielo Google Cloud Service Mesh Kong Navy Federal Credit Union PagBank Service Mesh SPIFFE Telia Company Tetrate

Score breakdown

Frequency
33.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Service Mesh 8 co-occurrences Zero Trust 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 8 co-occurrences Observability 5 co-occurrences Security 6 co-occurrences Authentication 6 co-occurrences

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