Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for traffic control for application-independent service mesh. In one example, processor circuitry to perform operations to instantiate ingress traffic management circuitry to receive ingress traffic events, at least one of the ingress traffic events to request access to a target microservice running on the second endpoint. The processor circuitry further performs operations to instantiate virtual service authorization circuitry to perform a look up of an authorization policy to the target microservice in the microservice catalog. Finally, the processor circuitry performs operations to instantiate endpoint selection circuitry to select the second endpoint to service the ingress traffic event in response to the authorization policy allowing access to the target microservice.