Istio

· 1 min read · Networking and Delivery · Tool

Istio places an Envoy proxy next to each workload and controls it from a central control plane. It enables traffic splitting, retries, mutual TLS and metrics for the communication between services.

Key concepts #

  • Gateway, VirtualService and DestinationRule: route and split traffic.
  • Sidecar: the Envoy proxy injected in each pod.
  • Telemetry: metrics for Prometheus and dashboards in Grafana.

Learn it #

Try Istio in a local Kubernetes cluster.

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