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We performed a comparison between Envoy and Istio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "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."
  • "You can deploy Istio free of cost and don't need to pay for it."
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    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
    8.0
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    Overview

    As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

    Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. Built on the learnings of solutions such as NGINX, HAProxy, hardware load balancers, and cloud load balancers, Envoy runs alongside every application and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. When all service traffic in an infrastructure flows via an Envoy mesh, it becomes easy to visualize problem areas via consistent observability, tune overall performance, and add substrate features in a single place.

    Connect
    Intelligently control the flow of traffic and API calls between services, conduct a range of tests, and upgrade gradually with red/black deployments.

    Secure
    Automatically secure your services through managed authentication, authorization, and encryption of communication between services.

    Control
    Apply policies and ensure that they’re enforced, and that resources are fairly distributed among consumers.

    Observe
    See what's happening with rich automatic tracing, monitoring, and logging of all your services.

    Sample Customers
    Airbnb, Booking.com, Cookpad, Digital Ocean, Ebay, F5, Google, GO-JEK, Grubhub, IBM, Medium, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Salesforce.com, Snapchat, Stripe, Square, Tencent, Twilio, Uber, Verizon, VMware, Vsco, Yahoo Japan, Yelp
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%

    Envoy is ranked 5th in Service Mesh while Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 3 reviews. Envoy is rated 0.0, while Istio is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Istio writes "A free-of-cost solution that can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting". Envoy is most compared with Traefik Enterprise, HAProxy, Kong Mesh, NGINX Service-Mesh and AWS App Mesh, whereas Istio is most compared with NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, AWS App Mesh and Traefik Enterprise.

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