We performed a comparison between Istio and VMware Tanzu Service Mesh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Isito, HAProxy, Kong and others in Service Mesh."The load balancing, service application, and monitoring of the life of the service are valuable features. We use it for authentication of call services, load balancing the calls among the service providers on service instances, and monitoring the health of the services."
"We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic."
"Istio can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting."
"Istio's best feature is that it's easy to use."
"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."
"The valuable feature I have found to be the management of Kubernetes clusters in a private cloud or public clouds, such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform."
"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."
"If someone doesn't understand Kubernetes, they'll have issues working with Istio."
"Istio's documentation is basic and would benefit from more examples."
"It would be good if the solution had more community forums."
"For our use case that we applied it to, there were graph queues and the calls that were coming in. There were the things that we couldn't apply at the time, but it kind of worked."
"Istio needs to be more mature and user-friendly."
"VMware Tanzu Service Mesh could add better integration with other cloud platforms, such as vRealize Automation or VMware vCloud Director for cloud providers."
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Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 6 reviews while VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is ranked 8th in Service Mesh. Istio is rated 8.2, while VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Istio writes "Provides traffic management and its mutual TLS authentication helps control the access policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Service Mesh writes "Reliable, effective Kubernetes management, and good technical support". Istio is most compared with NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, HAProxy, AWS App Mesh and Envoy, whereas VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is most compared with HashiCorp Consul, Envoy, NGINX Service-Mesh and Buoyant Linkerd.
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