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.
Istio is deployed on both Google and AWS clouds in our organization. Istio requires a version upgrade twice a year, which is pretty straightforward. Our company decided to go with Istio as a service because we didn't want to use out-of-the-box managed service or pay for that. When we deploy, we want to know how the data flows so that our application team can know and do it much better in future releases. Overall, I rate Istio an eight out of ten.
VP of Engineering at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-01-16T02:48:13Z
Jan 16, 2021
As with all evaluations, it depends on what you are benchmarking it against. When we look at how we evaluated it and how we arrived at it, in our case, it worked out quite well. There is no pricing involved because we are using open-source. We simply download it and then incorporate it into our code. Now, from that perspective, if the company has a good number of developers who are willing to read, understand, and adapt to the culture of innovation, this doesn't become an issue. These are the things that people will have to do. No matter which tool you use, you will have to eventually get to these things. The control plane of Istio understands the backend service plane or the data plane. It actually discovers it, configures it, and then puts the certificate in a proper place. I would rate Istio an eight out of ten.
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.
Istio is deployed on both Google and AWS clouds in our organization. Istio requires a version upgrade twice a year, which is pretty straightforward. Our company decided to go with Istio as a service because we didn't want to use out-of-the-box managed service or pay for that. When we deploy, we want to know how the data flows so that our application team can know and do it much better in future releases. Overall, I rate Istio an eight out of ten.
I would give Istio a rating of eight out of ten.
As with all evaluations, it depends on what you are benchmarking it against. When we look at how we evaluated it and how we arrived at it, in our case, it worked out quite well. There is no pricing involved because we are using open-source. We simply download it and then incorporate it into our code. Now, from that perspective, if the company has a good number of developers who are willing to read, understand, and adapt to the culture of innovation, this doesn't become an issue. These are the things that people will have to do. No matter which tool you use, you will have to eventually get to these things. The control plane of Istio understands the backend service plane or the data plane. It actually discovers it, configures it, and then puts the certificate in a proper place. I would rate Istio an eight out of ten.