Istio
Istiodactylus is a genus of pterosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago. The first fossil was discovered on the English Isle of Wight in 1887, and in 1901 became the holotype specimen of a new species, O. latidens (Latin for "wide tooth"), in the genus…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Istio was created to solve the challenges of managing, securing, and observing microservices deployed in distributed environments, especially Kubernetes. Before service meshes, implementing traffic management, security policies (like mTLS), and rich telemetry for inter-service communication required either bespoke, language-specific libraries within each service, or complex, inconsistent infrastructure configurations, leading to operational overhead and developer burden.
- Platforms
- web, Linux (for control plane, also Envoy proxies), Kubernetes, ios
Related technologies
Notable users
- Google Cloud (via Anthos Service Mesh)
- Alibaba Cloud
- Many enterprises adopting cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes
- Salesforce
- IBM
- Tencent