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We performed a comparison between Istio and NGINX Service-Mesh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Provides traffic management and its mutual TLS authentication helps control the access policies
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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."
  • "We use the tool's open-source version, so there are no hidden fees or additional costs associated with it."

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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Istio?
    Top Answer:Istio provides a significant saving for us in terms of costs since it is open source However, Istio can still come at a price. It has a steep learning curve and might require more manpower hours or… more »
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    What do you like most about Istio?
    Top Answer:We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic.
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    What needs improvement with Istio?
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    1st
    out of 11 in Service Mesh
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    5,426
    Comparisons
    4,402
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    Average Words per Review
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    8.3
    4th
    out of 11 in Service Mesh
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    2,949
    Comparisons
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    Overview

    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.

    Designed to be lightweight and seamless, NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise class solution that enables users to take control of Kubernetes with a turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

    NGINX Service Mesh provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.

    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%

    Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 6 reviews while NGINX Service-Mesh is ranked 4th in Service Mesh. Istio is rated 8.2, while NGINX Service-Mesh is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Istio writes "Provides traffic management and its mutual TLS authentication helps control the access policies". On the other hand, Istio is most compared with Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, HAProxy, AWS App Mesh and Envoy, whereas NGINX Service-Mesh is most compared with Envoy, HashiCorp Consul, AWS App Mesh, Buoyant Linkerd and Kong Mesh.

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