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Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, by Google, IBM, and Lyft
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What is Istio?

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
Istio is a tool in the Microservices Tools category of a tech stack.
Istio is an open source tool with 34.6K GitHub stars and 7.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Istio's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Istio?

Companies
189 companies reportedly use Istio in their tech stacks, including medium.com, Groww, and BlaBlaCar.

Developers
657 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Istio.

Istio Integrations

Docker, Kubernetes, Google Anthos, Ambassador, and Cilium are some of the popular tools that integrate with Istio. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Istio.
Pros of Istio
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Zero code for logging and monitoring
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Service Mesh
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Great flexibility
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Resiliency
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Powerful authorization mechanisms
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Ingress controller
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Easy integration with Kubernetes and Docker
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Full Security
Decisions about Istio

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Istio in their tech stack.

Needs advice
on
DaprDapr
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IstioIstio

At my company, we are trying to move away from a monolith into microservices led architecture. We are now stuck with a problem to establish a communication mechanism between microservices. Since, we are planning to use service meshes and something like Dapr/Istio, we are not sure on how to split services between the two. Service meshes offer Traffic Routing or Splitting whereas, Dapr can offer state management and service-service invocation. At the same time both of them provide mLTS, Metrics, Resiliency and tracing. How to choose who should offer what?

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Anas MOKDAD
Needs advice
on
IstioIstio
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KongKong

As for the new support of service mesh pattern by Kong, I wonder how does it compare to Istio?

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Jobs that mention Istio as a desired skillset

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Istio Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Istio?
linkerd
linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
Envoy
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Conduit
Conduit is a lightweight open source service mesh designed for performance, power, and ease of use when running applications on Kubernetes. Conduit is incredibly fast, lightweight, fundamentally secure, and easy to get started with.
Kong
Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
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