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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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    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 »
    Top Answer:We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic.
    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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    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.

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    See what's happening with rich automatic tracing, monitoring, and logging of all your services.

    Traefik Enterprise is a unified cloud-native networking solution that brings API management, ingress control, and Service Mesh all together in one simple control plane. Traefik Enterprise eases microservices networking complexity for developers and operations teams across the organization.

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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government7%
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    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise57%

    Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 6 reviews while Traefik Enterprise is ranked 9th in Service Mesh. Istio is rated 8.2, while Traefik Enterprise 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 NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, HAProxy and HashiCorp Consul, whereas Traefik Enterprise is most compared with Envoy, Tyk, Apache APISIX, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Microsoft Azure API Management.

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