Istio has very few community forums. It would be good if the solution had more community forums. Recently, we have faced an issue. We were using an old version of Istio. Our Kubernetes version in our cluster was about to upgrade, and it was incompatible with the old version of Istio. Our whole production system went down, and we faced a lot of service outages because of that. If you have an old version of Istio installed, it should be compatible with all the Kubernetes versions.
VP of Engineering at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-01-16T02:48:13Z
Jan 16, 2021
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 has very few community forums. It would be good if the solution had more community forums. Recently, we have faced an issue. We were using an old version of Istio. Our Kubernetes version in our cluster was about to upgrade, and it was incompatible with the old version of Istio. Our whole production system went down, and we faced a lot of service outages because of that. If you have an old version of Istio installed, it should be compatible with all the Kubernetes versions.
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's also difficult to set up, and some of its security features are restrictive.
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.