# Solo.io

> Solo.io is a unified platform for secure cloud connectivity and agentic AI infrastructure, offering enterprise-grade API gateway, service mesh, and AI agent management for Kubernetes environments.

Solo.io delivers a unified platform that bridges cloud-native connectivity and agentic AI infrastructure, built on open-source foundations like Istio, Envoy, kgateway, and kagent. The platform provides enterprise-grade API gateway and service mesh capabilities alongside tools to build, connect, and scale intelligent AI agents natively in Kubernetes. Solo.io is a top 10 CNCF contributor with over 65K GitHub stars and 28K+ community members, trusted by enterprises like T-Mobile, BMW, ADP, and Mattel.

**Key Features:**

- **Solo Enterprise for kgateway** — *A feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller and next-generation API gateway built on Envoy and the Kubernetes Gateway API; get started by deploying via Helm on any Kubernetes cluster.*
- **Solo Enterprise for Istio (Gloo Mesh)** — *Securely connect and observe microservices across multiple clusters and clouds with an enterprise Istio service mesh; begin with the Ambient Mesh readiness assessment.*
- **Solo Enterprise for agentgateway** — *Provides AI connectivity, security, resiliency, and governance for agents, tools, LLMs, and inference workloads; deploy as a gateway for your entire AI strategy.*
- **Solo Enterprise for kagent** — *Brings agentic AI to cloud-native Kubernetes with built-in observability, tracing, and secure policies for production-ready AI connectivity; start with the kagent CLI quickstart.*
- **Ambient Mesh support** — *Sidecarless Istio deployment model that reduces resource overhead and operational complexity; migrate from sidecars with zero downtime using guided labs.*
- **AI Gateway capabilities** — *Multi-LLM provider routing, semantic caching, prompt guards, prompt enrichment, credentials management, and consumption reporting for GenAI workloads.*
- **agentregistry** — *Agent skills and MCP registries for Kubernetes, enabling discovery, naming, and resolution of AI agents and tools.*
- **Open-source community** — *Leads and contributes to Istio, kgateway, kagent, agentgateway, and Ambient Mesh projects with 3B+ downloads; join via Slack or GitHub.*
- **Solo Academy** — *Self-paced labs and courses covering Envoy basics, Istio, service mesh, API gateway, and AI gateway topics for hands-on learning.*
- **Zero Trust security** — *mTLS, SPIRE integration, authorization policies, and compliance tooling built into the service mesh and gateway layers.*

## Features
- Enterprise API Gateway (kgateway)
- Enterprise Service Mesh (Istio/Gloo Mesh)
- AI & Agentic Infrastructure
- agentgateway for LLM and agent connectivity
- kagent for Kubernetes-native AI agents
- Ambient Mesh (sidecarless Istio)
- Multi-cluster service mesh management
- AI Gateway with multi-LLM routing
- Semantic caching for GenAI
- Prompt guards and prompt enrichment
- MCP server support
- Agent-to-agent (A2A) communication
- agentregistry for agent skills and MCP
- Zero Trust security with mTLS
- SPIRE integration
- Rate limiting and model failover
- Observability with OpenTelemetry
- GitOps support
- Kubernetes Gateway API support
- Self-paced labs and Solo Academy

## Integrations
Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy Proxy, AWS EKS, Amazon ECS, OpenAI, Argo Rollouts, OpenTelemetry, SPIRE, Helm, GitOps / Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana

## Platforms
LINUX, WEB, API, DEVELOPER_SDK

## Pricing
Open Source, Paid

## Links
- Website: https://www.solo.io
- Documentation: https://www.solo.io/docs
- Repository: https://github.com/solo-io
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/solo-io