Istio Reviews

Name: Istio
Brand: Isito
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Vendor: Isito

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Istio is the #1 ranked solution in top Service Mesh solutions. PeerSpot users give Istio an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Istio is most commonly compared to HAProxy: Istio vs HAProxy. Istio is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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PRABHAT_MISHRA

Senior Devops Engineer at LEAD School

Mar 27, 2024

Since it was an authentic application, we were handling the payments part. It was easy to debug, and Service A communicated to Service B. There were approximately 20 microservices inside the service mesh. Using Istio's observability feature, we could easily find out where the service was breaking, which saved us a lot of time. I would recommend the solution to other users. If you want to save time on the security application coding, move to Istio. It's a very helpful tool for debugging if you're working with microservices. The solution is also helpful for any service break and traffic management. Overall, I rate Istio a nine out of ten.

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Prakash Kumar Prabhat

Assistant Manager at Vuclip

Mar 27, 2024

We mention all the traffic and routing within YAML files. We mention which service it will come from, where it will route the traffic, to which service it should route, and to which port it should route, and we manage it within the cluster. We use Istio in our private cluster. We use the solution's TLS security for Service Discovery and routing traffic. There were no challenges in integrating Istio with microservices. If we have more than ten microservices running, Istio can help them communicate with each other or route the traffic to other services. Istio has a very good integration with our existing ecosystem. I would recommend the solution to other users. Istio is more secure than other tools like Consul for Service Discovery, routing traffic, and security. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Suresh Ayyavoo

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 24, 2023

Istio will make life easier if you are using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an orchestration tool for DevOps for infrastructure as a service. In terms of routing the request from different parts, Istio service mesh will make your life easy. There are a lot of internal technical discussions we can do…

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Istio market share

As of May 2024, the market share of Istio in the Service Mesh category stands at 22.7%, down from 25.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The tool's mutual TLS stands out. It provides secure communication between services within the cluster. Additionally, Istio offers built-in telemetry and tracing with tools like Jaeger, which aids monitoring and troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features of Istio are the traffic management and the Sidecar they inject, which greatly helps secure the application."
"We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic."

Room for Improvement

"If you're a beginner in infrastructure management and networking, learning Istio might pose some challenges. However, if you have some knowledge of networking or service meshes, you should find it manageable. Istio's website offers documentation to guide you through learning."
"Istio needs to be more mature and user-friendly."
"It would be good if the solution had more community forums."

Pricing

"We use the tool's open-source version, so there are no hidden fees or additional costs associated with it."
"You can deploy Istio free of cost and don't need to pay for it."
"It is on the less expensive side. It provides a significant saving for us in terms of cost and other things. It is open-source. We just download it from the open-source framework and use it."

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