What is Istio?
Istio is an open platform that provides a unified approach to integrating, managing, securing, and monitoring microservices. It offers a control plane that abstracts the underlying cluster management platform, enabling seamless deployment across different environments. Istio's traffic routing capabilities allow granular control over service-to-service communication, enabling advanced features such as A/B testing, canary releases, and staged rollouts. Additionally, Istio simplifies the configuration of service-level properties, including circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries, while also providing out-of-the-box failure recovery mechanisms to improve the resilience of the application against dependent service or network failures
Highlights
- Abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, enabling seamless deployment across different environments
- Granular control over service-to-service communication, including A/B testing, canary releases, and staged rollouts
- Simplified configuration of service-level properties, such as circuit breakers, timeouts, and retries
- Out-of-the-box failure recovery mechanisms to improve application resilience