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Azure Service Fabric vs Istio: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azure Service Fabric as "Distributed systems platform that simplifies build, package, deploy, and management of scalable microservices apps". Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps. On the other hand, Istio is detailed as "Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, by Google, IBM, and Lyft". 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.

Azure Service Fabric and Istio can be primarily classified as "Microservices" tools.

Azure Service Fabric and Istio are both open source tools. It seems that Istio with 18.5K GitHub stars and 3.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Azure Service Fabric with 2.57K GitHub stars and 304 GitHub forks.

Cuemby, Entelo, and AgFlow are some of the popular companies that use Istio, whereas Azure Service Fabric is used by Starbucks, OneWire, and eVestor. Istio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 30 developers stacks; compared to Azure Service Fabric, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Decisions about Azure Service Fabric and Istio

Prateek Mittal

Chose

Istio

over

Kong

Traefik

Istio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn-keyIstio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn key solution with Rancher whereas Kong completely lacks here. Traffic distribution in Istio can be done via canary, a/b, shadowing, HTTP headers, ACL, whitelist whereas in Kong it's limited to canary, ACL, blue-green, proxy caching. Istio has amazing community support which is visible via Github stars or releases when comparing both.

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Pros of Azure Service Fabric

Pros of Istio

5
Intelligent, fast, reliable
3
Open source
3
Superior programming models
3
More reliable than Kubernetes
3
Runs most of Azure core services
3
Reliability
2
Quickest recovery and healing in the world
1
Deploy anywhere
1
Is data storage technology
1
Battle hardened in Azure > 10 Years

14
Zero code for logging and monitoring
9
Service Mesh
8
Great flexibility
5
Ingress controller
5
Powerful authorization mechanisms
4
Full Security
4
Resiliency
4
Easy integration with Kubernetes and Docker

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Cons of Azure Service Fabric

Cons of Istio

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Performance

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What companies use Azure Service Fabric?

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What are some alternatives to Azure Service Fabric and Istio?

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

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.

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Azure App Service

Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps created with popular frameworks .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, PHP, Ruby, or Python, in containers or running on any operating system. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance requirements by using the fully managed platform for your operational and monitoring tasks.

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