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Resiliency: Centralized proxies can suffer from shared failure domain issues (especially when large number of configs, etc., are deployed). Performance: Side-loaded proxies tend to…

Kubernetes supports a microservices architecture through the Service construct and performs rudimentary L4 load balancing and more. But it doesn’t help with higher-level problems, …

Envoy is a big part of the solution, yes. But it isn't the only component. A control plane layer, including an auth component and an adaptable policy enforcement and telemetry coll…

The initial release for Istio is targeted at kubernetes. However, Istio is designed to be easy to adapt to other environments. With community help, we anticipate extending it to en…

That suggestion is based on the requirements of the underlying bookinfo sample application and is not related to Istio itself. Disclaimer: I work on Istio.

Some thoughts: Linkerd is great technology but it is restricted to traffic management only. Istio provides a complete mesh that incorporates authentication and policy enforcement, …