Overview
Istio is the implementation of a service mesh that creates resilience in your applications as you connect, manage, and secure microservices. In Introducing Istio Service Mesh for Microservices: Build and Deploy Resilient, Fault-Tolerant Cloud Native Applications, Red Hatters Burr Sutter and Christian Posta introduce several key microservices capabilities that Istio provides on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
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How the Istio service mesh enables developers to build better and more dependable software and deliver it faster than before.
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How Istio improves traffic control, service resiliency, testing, observability, and security of your microservices.
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Meet Istio
Istio is an implementation of a service mesh. A service mesh is the connective tissue between your services that adds additional capabilities like traffic control, service discovery, load balancing, resilience, observability, security, and so on. A service mesh allows applications to offload these capabilities from application-level libraries and allow developers to focus on differentiating business logic. Istio has been designed from the ground up to work across deployment platforms, but it has first-class integration and support for Kubernetes.
Like many complementary open source projects within the Kubernetes ecosystem, “Istio” is a Greek nautical term that means sail—much like “Kubernetes” itself is the Greek term for helmsman or a ship’s pilot. With Istio, there has been an explosion of interest in the concept of the service mesh, where Kubernetes/OpenShift has left off is where Istio begins.
