openservicemesh/osm resource
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2455
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1149
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2551 stars · 269 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible cloud native service mesh for Kubernetes that injects Envoy proxy sidecars next to application instances and runs an Envoy xDS-based control plane configured via SMI APIs. It provides uniform traffic management, mTLS-secured service-to-service communication, fine-grained access control, and out-of-the-box observability for dynamic microservice environments.
Use cases
- manage a service mesh on kubernetes
- secure service-to-service traffic with mtls
- shift traffic between deployment versions
- define fine-grained access control policies for microservices
- get metrics and observability for kubernetes services
- inject envoy sidecars automatically into pods
- integrate external certificate management with a service mesh
When to choose
- you are already running OSM and need to maintain an existing deployment
- you need a simple SMI-compliant mesh for a legacy Kubernetes environment
When to avoid
- starting a new service mesh project - OSM is officially archived by the CNCF with no further development
- you need long-term support or security patches
- you want an actively maintained alternative like Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium service mesh
Facets
infra-config · maturity abandoned
microservices networking security monitoring api-gateway microservices cloud-computing networking security go cloud self-hosted service-mesh envoy smi mtls sidecar-proxy cncf archived traffic-management observability containers devops kubernetes docker
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/openservicemesh/osm · fetched 2026-08-28 · d1077df9029c
- homepage: https://openservicemesh.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1c33cb2b0d87
- site_page: https://docs.openservicemesh.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 76020bbcf5ee
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| openservicemesh/osm | main | 10 |
For agents
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