Overview of the Istio service mesh
Istio is an open source platform-independent service mesh that manages traffic, enforces policies, and collects telemetry. It is a platform for managing communication between microservices and applications. It also provides automated baseline traffic resilience, service metrics collection, distributed tracing, traffic encryption, protocol upgrades, and advanced routing functionality for all service-to-service communication without requiring changes to the underlying services.
The following are some of the vital features of Istio:
- Secure service-to-service communication via TLS encryption, strong identity-based authentication, and authorization
- Automatic load balancing for HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, and TCP traffic
- Fine-grained traffic control via rich routing rules, retries, failovers, and fault injection
- A pluggable policy layer and configuration API that supports access controls, rate limits, and quotas
- Automatic metrics...
