Istio has a lot of momentum, but it's not necessarily the best service mesh for you. Let's take a look at some other service meshes and consider their attributes.
Alternatives to Istio
Linkerd 2.0
Buoyant is the company that coined the term Service Mesh in 2016 and came out with the first service mesh – Linkerd. It was based on Twitter's Finagle and was implemented in Scala. Since then, Buoyant developed a new service mesh that focused on Kubernetes, called Conduit (which was implemented in Rust and Go), and later (in July 2018) renamed it to Linkerd 2.0. It is a CNCF project like Istio. Linkerd 2.0 also uses sidecar containers that can be automatically or manually injected.
Due to its lightweight design...
