Istio pros and cons

Vendor: Isito

4.1 out of 5

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Istio Pros review quotes

reviewer1319007

VP of Engineering at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Jan 16, 2021

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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Prince Swarnkar

Sr. DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 2, 2024

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.

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PRABHAT_MISHRA

Senior Devops Engineer at LEAD School

Mar 27, 2024

The most valuable features of Istio are the traffic management and the Sidecar they inject, which greatly helps secure the application.

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Prakash Kumar Prabhat

Assistant Manager at Vuclip

Mar 27, 2024

We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic.

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Suresh Ayyavoo

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 24, 2023

Istio can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting.

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Alexander Samuel Larico

Teaching Professional at Next Idea Lab

Jun 27, 2022

Istio's best feature is that it's easy to use.

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Istio Cons review quotes

reviewer1319007

VP of Engineering at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

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.

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Prince Swarnkar

Sr. DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 2, 2024

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.

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PRABHAT_MISHRA

Senior Devops Engineer at LEAD School

Mar 27, 2024

Istio needs to be more mature and user-friendly.

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Prakash Kumar Prabhat

Assistant Manager at Vuclip

Mar 27, 2024

It would be good if the solution had more community forums.

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Suresh Ayyavoo