Istio
The leading service mesh for Kubernetes, adding traffic management, security, and observability to microservices without changing application code.
Overview
Istio injects a proxy sidecar next to each service in a Kubernetes cluster, giving a platform team fine-grained control over traffic routing, retries, timeouts, mutual TLS encryption between services, and detailed telemetry - all without any code changes in the services themselves. It's one of the most widely adopted and feature-rich service meshes available.
Istio is a fit for platform teams running many interdependent microservices on Kubernetes who need traffic control, security, and observability at the network layer, complementing Envoy (also in this catalog), the proxy that actually powers Istio's data plane.
- Categories
- DevOps
- Languages
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
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