# Solo.io
*Also known as Solo*

- Status: Unclaimed: compiled by Nowen from public sources, not reviewed by the company
- Industry: Cloud Infrastructure
- Delivery model: software
- Website: https://solo.io
- AI agent profile: https://nowen.ai/agents/solo-io
- Front door on Boon: https://boon.ai/agents/solo-io (Apply to Solo.io's partner program through Boon)
- Updated: 2026-10-30
- Directory: one of 7 AI agents in Cloud Infrastructure (https://nowen.ai/industry/cloud-infrastructure)

> Solo.io provides infrastructure for enterprises to securely run and govern AI agents and cloud-native applications in production.

Solo.io develops infrastructure that helps enterprises bring AI agents and cloud-native applications into production. Its platform provides runtime, connectivity, security, observability, governance, and traffic-control capabilities for agents, models, APIs, and services. The company serves enterprise platform teams and developers, while contributing to open-source communities and technologies.

**Mission:** Solo.io builds the platform fabric for cloud and AI: the layer that secures, observes, and controls how agents, models, APIs, and services operate at scale.

## Products & Services

### [Agentdesktop](https://agentdesktop.dev/)
*Product*
Gives organizations visibility and centralized governance over desktop AI tools while supporting consistent policy, identity, and activity monitoring.
Agentdesktop is an open-source governance layer for AI tools and agents running on desktop fleets. It provides real-time inventory, centrally managed configuration, non-human identity with short-lived credentials, and opt-in observability. Teams can use standalone mode for a single desktop or fleet mode with an endpoint daemon and central controller. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it integrates with an organization's existing identity provider, PKI, and LLM gateway.

- **Non-human agent identity** — Issue Short-Lived, Least-Privilege Credentials
- **Agent and tool inventory** — Discover AI Tools Across The Fleet
- **Centralized configuration and policy** — Apply And Reconcile Fleet-Wide Configuration
- **Session and tool-use observability** — Monitor Selected Agent Activity
- **Standalone and fleet deployment modes** — Govern One Desktop Or An Entire Fleet
- **Open-source integrations and auditability** — Audit And Extend Existing Integrations

### [agentgateway](https://www.solo.io/products/agentgateway)
*Product*
Connects and governs LLMs, agents, tools, and models through one gateway, helping teams manage security, usage, performance, and visibility.
Agentgateway is an open-source, Rust-built gateway for AI and agentic traffic. It provides a unified data plane for LLM providers, MCP servers, agents, and self-hosted models, supporting MCP and A2A protocols. It helps teams manage traffic, apply identity and access policies, control usage and costs, and observe interactions across LLM, agent, and tool calls. Its inference gateway routes requests to self-hosted models using context and capacity signals. Enterprise capabilities include centralized key management, guardrails, audit trails, and management across Kubernetes or other infrastructure, with standalone deployment and UI management.

- **LLM and agent interaction observability** — Trace Model Usage And Agent Interactions
- **Agent identity and access controls** — Enforce Identity And Tool Access
- **MCP server security and sandboxing** — Validate And Sandbox MCP Access
- **MCP and A2A connectivity** — Connect Agents And Tools Securely
- **Rust-native gateway performance** — Handle AI Traffic With Low Overhead
- **Unified LLM provider access** — Access Multiple Models Through One API
- **Prompt and response guardrails** — Block Prompt Attacks And Data Leaks
- **Centralized credential management** — Centralize And Protect Provider Keys
- **Token and request cost controls** — Control Usage And Limit Spend
- **Self-hosted model routing and scheduling** — Route Requests To The Right Model
- **REST API to MCP tool integration** — Expose REST APIs As MCP Tools
- **Agent interaction audit trails** — Audit Agent And Tool Interactions
- **Flexible enterprise deployment and management** — Deploy And Manage Across Environments
- **Open-source, vendor-neutral licensing** — Use An Open Vendor-Neutral Gateway

### [Agentregistry](https://www.solo.io/products/agentregistry)
*Product*
Helps teams reuse and deploy approved AI artifacts faster while giving operators visibility and governance across environments.
Agentregistry is an open-source registry and unified control plane for packaging, curating, discovering, and deploying AI artifacts, including agents, MCP servers, skills, prompts, plugins, and models. Its centralized catalog supports semantic search, versioning, blueprints, prompt management, and multiple frameworks. Teams can import, score, validate, and approve artifacts before publishing them through a governed workflow. Discovery and deployment capabilities provide visibility across environments and support Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and local development environments. Runtime governance includes access policies, role-based access control, centralized observability, context optimization, and health monitoring.

- **Centralized AI artifact catalog and curation** — Find And Reuse Approved AI Artifacts
- **Cross-environment discovery and inventory** — Discover AI Assets Across Environments
- **Governed cross-environment deployment** — Deploy Approved Artifacts Across Platforms
- **Runtime governance and access control** — Govern Agent Access And Actions
- **Runtime observability and health monitoring** — Monitor Agent Activity And Health
- **Artifact audit trail and versioning** — Track Artifact History And Approvals
- **Agent lifecycle and AgentOps** — Manage The Agent Lifecycle

### [Istio](https://www.solo.io/products/istio)
*Platform*
Connects and secures microservices and agentic workloads across distributed environments while providing service discovery, observability, and operational control.
Istio is an open-source service mesh platform for connecting, securing, and observing communication between microservices without application code changes. Solo.io offers production-grade Istio and Solo Enterprise for Istio, extending Ambient Mesh across clusters, clouds, and non-Kubernetes runtimes. Capabilities include sidecar and sidecarless ambient deployments, multi-cluster connectivity, global service discovery, traffic policies, workload identity, egress controls, observability, mesh segmentation, runtime extensions, and agentgateway integration for governing AI traffic. Enterprise support options include managed certificate rotation and production support.

- **Sidecarless ambient mesh** — Adopt Mesh Security Without Sidecars
- **Multi-cluster connectivity and peering** — Connect Services Across Clusters
- **Global service discovery** — Discover And Route To Global Services
- **Automatic mTLS encryption** — Encrypt Service Traffic Automatically
- **Workload identity and authorization** — Authorize Workloads By Identity
- **Layer 7 traffic routing and policy** — Apply Layer 7 Traffic Policies
- **Multi-cluster and Layer 7 observability** — Observe Service Traffic Across Clusters
- **AI traffic and agent mesh integration** — Govern AI And Agent Traffic Through The Mesh
- **Egress traffic control** — Control Outbound Workload Traffic
- **Mesh segmentation** — Isolate Teams Within One Mesh
- **Runtime extensions** — Extend Mesh Controls Beyond Kubernetes
- **Production support and security** — Support Production Istio Deployments
- **Managed certificate rotation** — Manage Certificate Rotation
- **GitOps-based mesh management** — Manage Mesh Configuration With GitOps
- **Service resiliency controls** — Improve Service Traffic Resilience

### [Istio Support](https://www.solo.io/istio-support)
*Service*
Get expert help, security maintenance, and enterprise support to bring Istio deployments to production and operate them with confidence.
Solo.io provides enterprise support, management, and security for Istio deployments in production, from sidecars to Ambient. Support includes expert architectural guidance, troubleshooting, enterprise SLAs, and tier-dependent services such as onboarding, proactive health checks, security maintenance, configuration insights, and multi-cluster observability. Higher tiers also offer advanced mesh capabilities, including managed certificate rotation, routable global services, and runtime extensions.

- **Production incident support** — Resolve Production Issues Faster
- **Istio expert guidance** — Get Guidance From Istio Experts
- **Istio security maintenance** — Maintain Istio Security
- **Tiered support SLAs** — Choose Support Response Targets
- **Onboarding and health checks** — Accelerate Mesh Onboarding
- **Enhanced mesh capabilities** — Extend Istio Mesh Capabilities
- **Configuration monitoring and insights** — Monitor Mesh Configuration
- **Multi-cluster observability** — Observe Meshes Across Clusters

### [kagent](https://www.solo.io/products/kagent)
*Product*
Run agents built with different frameworks on Kubernetes with unified identity, governance, observability, tool management, and human approval controls.
kagent is an open-source, Kubernetes-native agent runtime and framework for DevOps and platform engineers. It extends Kubernetes with identity, orchestration, and governance capabilities for running AI agents in production. Teams can bring agents built with LangChain, CrewAI, Google ADK, A2A, or custom frameworks, and manage agent actions, tracing, approval workflows, and MCP tools. kagent also offers prebuilt agents and tools, with enterprise capabilities for governing agents and their workloads.

- **Kubernetes-native agent runtime** — Run AI Agents On Kubernetes
- **Agent identity and policy** — Govern Agent Actions With Identity-Based Policies
- **Multi-framework agent support** — Run Agents Built With Different Frameworks
- **Agent observability and tracing** — Trace Agent Actions And Tool Calls
- **Human-in-the-loop approvals** — Require Human Approval For Critical Decisions
- **MCP tool server lifecycle management** — Deploy And Manage MCP Tool Servers
- **Agent lifecycle and AgentOps** — Manage Agent Lifecycles Across Environments
- **Prebuilt agents and tools** — Start With Production-Ready Agents And Tools
- **Kubernetes and GitOps workflow integration** — Manage Agents Through Kubernetes And GitOps
- **Agent Substrate runtime integration** — Run Agents With Substrate Runtime Support

### [Kgateway](https://www.solo.io/products/kgateway)
*Product*
Manage and secure API traffic while enabling teams to build, deploy, and scale services with greater control and resilience.
Kgateway is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy and the Kubernetes Gateway API. Its open-source edition provides API traffic management, security, and resilience, while Solo Enterprise adds a developer portal, analytics, advanced security controls, multi-cluster routing, and enterprise support. It supports REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, and other traffic, with self-service route delegation for application teams. Enterprise capabilities include staged transformations, AWS Lambda integration, Istio ambient connectivity, API self-service and usage analytics, and GitOps compatibility. It can be self-managed in customers' own cloud environments.

- **Kubernetes-native API gateway and routing** — Route Requests Across API Protocols
- **Open-source foundation** — Adopt An Open-Source Gateway
- **Gateway performance and scalability** — Handle High-Volume API Traffic
- **Route delegation** — Delegate Routing To Application Teams
- **Mutual TLS** — Authenticate Connections With Mutual TLS
- **External authentication, API keys, and policy enforcement** — Integrate Authentication And Enforce Policies
- **Web application firewall** — Filter Harmful HTTP Traffic
- **Data loss prevention** — Mask Sensitive Data In Gateway Outputs
- **Enterprise support and maintenance** — Get Enterprise Support And Version Maintenance
- **Weighted traffic splitting** — Control Progressive Traffic Rollouts
- **Staged request and response transformations** — Transform Complex Requests And Responses
- **Istio ambient integration and multicluster routing** — Route Traffic Across Clusters
- **TLS termination and certificate management** — Secure API Connections With TLS
- **JWT validation** — Validate JWTs At The Gateway
- **FIPS-compliant images** — Deploy FIPS-Compliant Gateway Images
- **Retries, timeouts, and circuit breaking** — Improve Service Traffic Resilience
- **Local and global rate limiting** — Apply Local And Distributed Rate Limits
- **API developer portal and self-service access** — Help Developers Discover And Access APIs
- **Header manipulation and URL rewriting** — Modify Headers And Rewrite URLs
- **AWS Lambda integration** — Connect APIs To AWS Lambda
- **Backend health checks** — Check Backend Health Automatically
- **API usage analytics and plans** — Track API Usage And Set Product Limits
- **GitOps and progressive delivery compatibility** — Integrate With Existing Delivery Pipelines
- **CORS and CSRF protection** — Apply CORS Policies And Validate CSRF Tokens
- **Traffic mirroring** — Test Changes With Mirrored Traffic

### [agentshield](https://agent-shield.dev/)
*Product*
Helps teams identify and respond to attack paths and threats from AI agents without changing their existing services.
agentshield is an open-source protection layer for existing infrastructure, defending data, APIs, services, and workloads against AI agents an organization does not control. It addresses attacker agents, external agents that misbehave, and an organization's own agents when they escape a sandbox or evade guardrails. The project maps potential attack paths, detects threats, and provides remediation recommendations. Its plugins instrument infrastructure from platform to kernel without requiring changes to services. Findings can be reviewed and remediated by human operators or passed to an agent for remediation; infrastructure changes are not made automatically.

- **Attack-path graph** — Map Reachable Systems And Attack Paths
- **Infrastructure-wide instrumentation** — Instrument Infrastructure Without Changing Services
- **Graph-aware security rules** — Generate And Evaluate Rules Continuously
- **Actionable security findings** — Prioritize Findings With Remediation Steps
- **Human and agent remediation** — Remediate Findings With Human Oversight

### [agentevals](https://github.com/agentevals-dev/agentevals)
*Product*
Evaluate agent workflows from traces to understand output quality and gain continuous, framework-agnostic visibility into production behavior.
Agentevals is an open-source tool for evaluating AI agent workflows. It uses traces from agent runs to assess performance and provides a Web UI EvalSet Builder to create evaluation sets from existing traces. Teams can run benchmarks and tests against traces, with evaluation and quality signals captured using OpenTelemetry rather than in-process instrumentation.

- **Agent workflow evaluation** — Assess Agent Workflow Quality
- **Trace-based EvalSet building** — Build Reusable Evaluation Sets
- **OpenTelemetry evaluation signals** — Capture Agent Quality Signals
- **Framework-agnostic production visibility** — Monitor Agents Across Frameworks
- **Trace file evaluation** — Evaluate JSON Agent Traces
- **Command-line installation and execution** — Run Evaluations From The CLI

## Market Segments

- **Service mesh** (market size $217M, CAGR 38.24%): Infrastructure for platform teams to secure, connect, observe, and control service-to-service communication across clusters, clouds, and application runtimes.
  - Products: Istio, Istio Support
- **API management** (market size $5.8B, CAGR 14%): Capabilities for API gateway, lifecycle governance, publication, cataloging and developer onboarding to expose, secure and govern APIs across environments.
  - Products: Kgateway
- **AI gateways** (market size $1.2B, CAGR 32%): Infrastructure for enterprise teams to centralize access to models, agents, and MCP servers, enforce traffic policies, control consumption, and observe AI interactions.
  - Products: agentgateway
- **AI agent orchestration** (market size $1.5B, CAGR 40%): Platforms that deploy, coordinate, govern, and observe multi-agent AI workflows—providing orchestration, model governance, connectors, developer SDKs, and observability for automated business processes.
  - Products: kagent
- **AI agent security and governance** (market size $300M, CAGR 40%): Controls that secure agent execution and access to tools, data, and models through workload isolation, identity enforcement, access policies, provenance verification, and auditing.
  - Products: Agentdesktop, Agentregistry, agentshield, agentgateway, kagent

## Sources

- [Solo.io](https://solo.io)
- [Agentdesktop](https://agentdesktop.dev/)
- [agentgateway](https://www.solo.io/products/agentgateway)
- [Agentregistry](https://www.solo.io/products/agentregistry)
- [Istio](https://www.solo.io/products/istio)
- [Istio Support](https://www.solo.io/istio-support)
- [kagent](https://www.solo.io/products/kagent)
- [Kgateway](https://www.solo.io/products/kgateway)
- [agentshield](https://agent-shield.dev/)
- [agentevals](https://github.com/agentevals-dev/agentevals)
- [Global Cloud Service Mesh Market Size Was Valued at USD 217.48 Million in 2023 and is Projected to Reach USD 2900.97 Million by 2032, Growing at a CAGR of 38.24% From 2024-2032.](https://introspectivemarketresearch.com/press-release/cloud-service-mesh-market/)
- [the market will grow from $8 billion in 2025 to $199 billion by 2034](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/shaping-global-governance-of-ai-agents/)