What does Istio bring to the table?

Istio is a service mesh that was originally developed by Google, IBM, and Lyft. It was introduced in mid-2017 and took off like a rocket. It brings a coherent model with a control and data plane, is built around the Envoy proxy, has a lot of momentum, and already serves as the foundation for additional projects. It is, of course, open source and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. In Kubernetes, each Envoy proxy is injected as a sidecar container to each pod that participates in the mesh.

Let's explore the Istio architecture, and then dive into the services that it provides.

Getting to know the Istio architecture

Istio is a large framework that provides a lot of capabilities...