Istio

Istio is an open-source service mesh providing transparent traffic management, zero-trust security with mutual TLS, dynamic telemetry, and sidecarless Ambient Mesh architectures.

When to Use

• Enterprise Kubernetes Service Mesh: Zero-trust mTLS encryption, traffic management, and telemetry across microservices.
• Canary & Blue-Green Traffic Splitting: Shifting percentage-based traffic smoothly using VirtualService and DestinationRule.
• Fault Injection & Chaos Testing: Injecting synthetic HTTP delays and abort errors to test microservice resilience.
• Egress & Ingress Traffic Governance: Restricting outbound network connections and securing inbound traffic via Istio Ingress Gateway.

Quick Start