aid: google-cloud-service-mesh
name: Google Cloud Service Mesh
description: >-
  Google Cloud Service Mesh is Google's managed service mesh solution for GKE
  and supported GKE Enterprise environments, enabling secure, observable, and
  reliable communication between microservices. It provides a managed Istio
  control plane, Google Cloud-native service routing APIs, mTLS security,
  and built-in telemetry for distributed applications.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Google Cloud
  - Istio
  - Kubernetes
  - Microservices
  - Service Mesh
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-service-mesh/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: google-cloud-service-mesh:network-services-api
    name: Google Cloud Network Services API
    description: >-
      The Network Services API provides programmatic configuration of application
      networking infrastructure for Cloud Service Mesh. It manages gateways,
      meshes, HTTP/gRPC/TCP/TLS routes, endpoint policies, service load
      balancing policies, WebAssembly plugins, and authorization extensions
      through a REST interface backed by the networkservices.googleapis.com
      service endpoint.
    humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-services/rest
    baseURL: https://networkservices.googleapis.com/
    tags:
      - Networking
      - REST
      - Service Mesh
      - Traffic Management
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-services/rest
      - type: Reference
        url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-services/rest/v1/projects.locations.meshes
      - type: Discovery
        url: https://networkservices.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
  - aid: google-cloud-service-mesh:network-security-api
    name: Google Cloud Network Security API
    description: >-
      The Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh,
      including authorization policies, client TLS policies, and server TLS
      policies. It provides REST endpoints for creating and managing mTLS
      configuration and fine-grained access control across projects and locations,
      served from the networksecurity.googleapis.com service endpoint.
    humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-security/rest
    baseURL: https://networksecurity.googleapis.com/
    tags:
      - Authorization
      - mTLS
      - Security
      - Service Mesh
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-security/rest
      - type: Reference
        url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-security/rest/v1/projects.locations.authorizationPolicies
      - type: Discovery
        url: https://networksecurity.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
  - aid: google-cloud-service-mesh:xds-control-plane-api
    name: Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane API
    description: >-
      Cloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to
      distribute configuration to Envoy sidecar proxies and proxyless gRPC
      clients. Configurations defined via the Network Services and Network
      Security REST APIs are translated and pushed to connected clients through
      the xDS protocol, supporting Listener Discovery Service (LDS), Route
      Discovery Service (RDS), Cluster Discovery Service (CDS), and Endpoint
      Discovery Service (EDS).
    humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/service-routing/xds-control-plane-apis
    baseURL: https://trafficdirector.googleapis.com/
    tags:
      - Control Plane
      - Envoy
      - Service Mesh
      - xDS
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/service-routing/xds-control-plane-apis
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs
  - type: Getting Started
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/onboarding/provision-control-plane
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/reference/network-services/rest
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/pricing
  - type: Change Log
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/release-notes
  - type: Support
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/getting-support
  - type: Security
    url: https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/security-bulletins
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com