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"Istio can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting.""Istio's best feature is that it's easy to use.""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."

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"The valuable feature I have found to be the management of Kubernetes clusters in a private cloud or public clouds, such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform."

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"Istio's documentation is basic and would benefit from more examples.""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 someone doesn't understand Kubernetes, they'll have issues working with Istio."

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"VMware Tanzu Service Mesh could add better integration with other cloud platforms, such as vRealize Automation or VMware vCloud Director for cloud providers."

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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."
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  • "One of our Spanish customers told us that VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is a very expensive product for their data center."
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    Intelligently control the flow of traffic and API calls between services, conduct a range of tests, and upgrade gradually with red/black deployments.

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    Automatically secure your services through managed authentication, authorization, and encryption of communication between services.

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    Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 3 reviews while VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is ranked 8th in Service Mesh. Istio is rated 8.0, while VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Istio writes "A free-of-cost solution that can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Service Mesh writes "Reliable, effective Kubernetes management, and good technical support". Istio is most compared with NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, AWS App Mesh, HAProxy and Envoy, whereas VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is most compared with HashiCorp Consul, Envoy, NGINX Service-Mesh and Buoyant Linkerd.

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