IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Istio is an open technology that provides a way for developers to seamlessly connect, manage and secure networks of different microservices — regardless of platform, source or vendor. Istio is currently one of the fastest-growing open-source projects based on Github contributors, and its strength is its community. IBM is proud to be a founder and contributor of the Istio project and a leader of Istio Working Groups. Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is offered as a managed add-on that integrates Istio directly with your Kubernetes cluster. A single click deploys a tuned, production-ready Istio instance on your IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster. A single click runs Istio core components and tracing, monitoring and visualization tools. IBM Cloud updates all Istio components and manages the control-plane component's lifecycle.
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Control Plane
Control Plane is a cloud virtualization platform that enables devops teams to compose any combination of cloud infrastructure (bare metal, VMs, k8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI) into one or more AI-native virtual clouds. Applications run at 99.999% availability, backed by an SLA, without added infrastructure complexity. Organizations use it to cut infrastructure costs by 30–50%, eliminate vendor lock-in, and securely deploy workloads, VMs, and AI agents across single-cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments from a single AI-enabled interface. SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant.
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platformOS
platformOS works with brands like Intel, Arab Bank, NEOM.com, Hallmark, UiPath, Spark Digital (NZ), and funded startups, delivering 100% business rule flexibility for web applications, with a strong pedigree in multi-sided marketplaces.
Whether Progressive Web Apps, IoT integration, native Mobile or any Web Browser supported frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js etc, platformOS meets the Enterprise scaling needs to build and run any and every business application scenario.
As an APIs-for-Everything 'low code' application development platform’, platformOS offers an advanced developer / web agency supported ecosystem supporting Channel Partners and Enterprise Clients building powerful, zero limits, API centric solutions; with a much shortened time to market (lower cost) that what is typical, especially for multi-sided marketplaces.
In addition, platformOS provides multi-cloud devops infrastructure support “out of the box” which saves many thousands in operational costs.
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Ambient Mesh
Ambient Mesh is a next-generation, sidecar-less service mesh designed to simplify security, connectivity, and observability for cloud-native workloads. It enables teams to secure and connect applications without modifying application code or adding operational overhead. Ambient Mesh provides zero-trust, SPIFFE-based security with end-to-end workload encryption. Built-in observability tools deliver distributed tracing, logs, and real-time performance insights. The platform supports advanced traffic control features such as routing, failover, and blue-green deployments. Ambient Mesh allows organizations to migrate from traditional sidecar-based meshes with zero downtime. By reducing complexity and resource usage, it helps teams operate more efficiently at scale.
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