Examples described herein relate to a system for offloading a proxy for microservice-to-microservice communication to a network interface device. In some examples, the system includes a host interface and a network interface device circuitry comprising circuitry coupled to the host interface. In some examples, the circuitry is configured to: perform offloaded proxy operations of a service mesh interface for multiple services, wherein the circuitry is accessible via a virtual network device by a host processor-executed service of the multiple services and wherein the service mesh interface is to provide access to a service mesh to communicate with one or more services.