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Fast-track FIPS validation with Linkerd

Meet FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 requirements in Kubernetes. Enforce FIPS-validated encryption, mTLS, and authenticated service communication without changing application code.

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No plan required. Companies with fewer than 50 employees can also run BEL for production use, at any scale.

FIPS-validated mTLS for Kubernetes

We're the company behind Linkerd, the first CNCF-graduated service mesh. We help teams meet the compliance requirements for frameworks like FedRAMP, CMMC, FISMA, and HIPAA with FIPS-validated encryption for Kubernetes applications.

Why teams choose Buoyant

Enforce FIPS 140-2 and 140-3

Use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules to secure service-to-service communication across Kubernetes clusters.

Pass audits with confidence

Simplify auditing with a FIPS dashboard to give auditors real-time proof of encryption and readily available CMVP numbers.

Avoid changing application code

Enable FIPS encryption at the infra layer without needing to change your code.

Enterprise-grade capabilities

Reduced cryptographic drift

Keep FIPS-approved algorithms consistent across services, avoiding configuration gaps that might complicate audits.

FIPS-validated mTLS encryption

Enforce authenticated, encrypted service communication across your Kubernetes environment.

Automated FIPS enforcement

Automate upgrades while maintaining FIPS compliance across clusters.

Enterprise plans built to scale

Pricing scales with your cluster size and support needs. 

Start with a guided rollout, then expand globally with automation and compliance support.

Starter

For teams adopting modern platform security, reliability, and observability via the service mesh.

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  • Stable release artifacts
  • Automated installs and upgrades
  • SLAs on CVE remediation
  • Mutual TLS and basic service mesh featureset

Growth

For companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.


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Everything in Basic, plus:

  • Multi-cluster communication
  • L7 network security policies
  • Automatic cross-cluster failover
  • Support for Linux VM workloads

Enterprise Plus

For enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements.

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Everything in Premium, plus:

  • Hotpatch releases and SBOMs
  • High Availability Zone-aware
 Load Balancing (HAZL)
  • FIPS 140-3 and 140-2 validated cryptography (optional)
  • Enterprise support with 24x7 SLAs

What our clients think

We found Istio to be unnecessarily complicated. We would have spent months just learning the system, which isn’t an option when you’re in a high-growth stage like IntelliGRC. With Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, we could get it running immediately.

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We had the Linkerd multi-cluster up and running within an hour! After a few days of struggling with Istio, we gave up on it. Linkerd did the job fast and easily — the perfect mesh for us. It had all the features we needed at the time, was easy to operate, had a great community, and solid documentation.

Unlike other service mesh offerings that crowd half baked features into the mix, or over-complicated topology choices, Linkerd follows the Unix model of doing one thing well, in a composable way. Lachlan Smith, Lead Software Engineer

We had the Linkerd multi-cluster up and running within an hour! After a few days of struggling with Istio, we gave up on it. Linkerd did the job fast and easily — the perfect mesh for us. It had all the features we needed at the time, was easy to operate, had a great community, and solid documentation.

We found Istio to be unnecessarily complicated. We would have spent months just learning the system, which isn’t an option when you’re in a high-growth stage like IntelliGRC. With Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, we could get it running immediately.

Because of Linkerd, we’ve been able to easily increase the platform capacity by over 10x, reduce operating costs, and better hit our availability targets—while continuing to iterate on our business differentiators.

We started with Linkerd and it turned out to be so easy to get started that we gave up on evaluating the other two — we loved it from the get-go. Within hours of stumbling over it online, we had deployed it on our dev environment. Three more days and it was up and running on our new service running in production.

We had just begun conversations with Barclays and needed to prove we could scale to meet their needs. Linkerd gave us the confidence to adopt a scalable cloud-based infrastructure knowing it would be reliable — any network instability was now handled by Linkerd.

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