---
title: Service meshes
description: You can connect ECK and managed Elastic Stack applications to some of the most popular service mesh implementations in the Kubernetes ecosystem: Istio,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-on-k8s/service-meshes
products:
  - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes: Generally available
---

# Service meshes
You can connect ECK and managed Elastic Stack applications to some of the most popular [service mesh](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/04/26/service-mesh-critical-component-cloud-native-stack/) implementations in the Kubernetes ecosystem:
- [Istio](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-on-k8s/k8s-service-mesh-istio)
- [Linkerd](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-on-k8s/k8s-service-mesh-linkerd)