Tetrate Service Bridge

What Tetrate Service Bridge is

Tetrate Service Bridge is a paid service mesh and control plane for connecting, monitoring, and securing microservices. Built on Istio, it brings configuration, operation, and visibility for service-to-service communication into a global management plane that manages Istio and Envoy across hybrid, multi-cluster environments. It works at application edges, cluster ingress, and between workloads in Kubernetes and traditional compute clusters. Security capabilities include end-to-end mTLS, certificate management, identity-aware authorization, role-based access controls, and tenant isolation. Traffic management includes global routing, circuit breaking, locality-aware failover, canary releases, traffic shifting, and blue-green deployments. Unified metrics, embedded distributed tracing, topology views, service inventory, dashboards, and alerts provide operational visibility. TSB applies zero-trust policies with fine-grained access controls and auditability aligned with NIST standards. Tetrate says it supports compliance requirements including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, and FIPS/FedRAMP. The management plane can be hosted by Tetrate or deployed in customer Kubernetes infrastructure. Hosted deployments include Tetrate updates, security fixes, scaling, and availability incident management by its SRE team. Pricing is available on request, and there is no free plan.

Who it suits

TSB suits platform owners, application developers, and security administrators managing large, multi-cluster, multi-tenant deployments.

Limits

There is no free plan, and pricing is available on request. Self-managed installation requires Kubernetes, a private HTTPS Docker registry, a Tetrate repository account and API key, Docker Engine, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch or AWS OpenSearch, Redis, an identity provider, and cert-manager.

Getting started

1. Visit the Tetrate Service Bridge website and request pricing.
2. Choose a hosted management plane or deploy it in your Kubernetes infrastructure.
3. For a self-managed installation, prepare Kubernetes, a private HTTPS Docker registry, a Tetrate repository account and API key, Docker Engine, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch or AWS OpenSearch, Redis, an identity provider, and cert-manager.
4. For a hosted deployment, Tetrate manages updates, security fixes, scaling, and availability incidents.

Verdict

Choose Tetrate Service Bridge if your team manages service connectivity across large hybrid or multi-cluster deployments and needs centralized security and traffic controls. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or want a self-managed installation without the listed infrastructure prerequisites.