We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Consul and Istio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Service Mesh solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The documentation is good."
"HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction."
"The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment."
"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 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."
"Istio's best feature is that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Istio are the traffic management and the Sidecar they inject, which greatly helps secure the application."
"Istio can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting."
"We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic."
"Health check outputs are delayed sometimes."
"The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use."
"They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform."
"Istio's documentation is basic and would benefit from more examples."
"It would be good if the solution had more community forums."
"If someone doesn't understand Kubernetes, they'll have issues working with Istio."
"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."
"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."
HashiCorp Consul is ranked 6th in Service Mesh with 3 reviews while Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 6 reviews. HashiCorp Consul is rated 7.6, while Istio is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HashiCorp Consul writes "A scalable solution that can be used to perform health checks of applications and services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Istio writes "Provides traffic management and its mutual TLS authentication helps control the access policies". HashiCorp Consul is most compared with AWS App Mesh, NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and HAProxy, whereas Istio is most compared with NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and HAProxy. See our HashiCorp Consul vs. Istio report.
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