Solo.io Blog

In this blog, we highlight some of MCP's foundational challenges, alternative proposals in the community, and sharing our opinion on what this should look like in enterprise environments. We know the MCP community is hard at work on revising the specification and we feel future updates will align better with our recommendations here.

MCP Services are the right path forward to enterprises building on the MCP protocol, but even with recent revisions to the MCP protocol, there are some things still left to be ironed out. This blog goes into some of those details.

Istio Ambient Mesh’s ztunnel delivers secure-by-default microservices communication and real-time traffic visibility - without sidecars. Learn how it boosts performance, simplifies management, and reduces costs while enhancing security and observability.

Learn how the Omni vision unifies traffic, security, and observability control across cloud-native systems with Gloo Mesh and Gloo Gateway.

Running massive Kubernetes clusters might seem simpler, but it’s a trap. Learn why scaling a single cluster creates hidden performance, security, and reliability issues, and how Gloo Mesh with Ambient Mesh makes multi-cluster networking finally viable.

Strengthen your cloud-native security posture with Istio and ambient mesh. Learn how ambient enhances zero-trust architecture, simplifies mTLS, reduces attack surface, and decouples security from app logic, all with less operational overhead.

Considering migrating from Istio sidecars to ambient mesh? Learn about the key challenges, risks, and benefits of ambient, including improved performance, lower costs, and operational simplicity, plus tips to plan a safe, successful transition.

Today, we’re excited to share the next major milestone: Agent Gateway is now a full-featured, AI-native gateway that combines deep MCP and A2A protocol awareness, robust traffic policy controls, inference gateway support, Kubernetes Gateway API support, and unified access to major LLMs, all purpose-built with Rust for real-world agentic systems.