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Followers1.4K

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Istio vs Dapr: What are the differences?

Istio: 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; Dapr: An open-source project to make it easier to build microservices. It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

Istio and Dapr belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.

Istio and Dapr are both open source tools. It seems that Istio with 20.1K GitHub stars and 3.54K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dapr with 3.44K GitHub stars and 137 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Dapr 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 Dapr

Pros of Istio

3
Manage inter-service state
2
MTLS "for free"
2
App dashboard for rapid log overview
2
Zipkin app tracing "for free"

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

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Cons of Dapr

Cons of Istio

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Performance

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What are some alternatives to Dapr and Istio?

Akka

Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.

Orleans

Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.

Knative

Knative provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere: on premises, in the cloud, or even in a third-party data center

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.

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