An Introduction to Istio
"If it makes it easier for users to use on the frontend, it's probably complex on the backend."
Istio is a large, complex system that provides benefits to your workloads by offering enhanced security, discovery, observability, traffic management, and more – all without requiring application developers to write modules or applications to handle each task.
For most people, it has a large learning curve, but once you have the Istio skills to deploy and operate a service mesh, you will be able to provide very complex offerings to your developers, including the ability to do the following:
- Route traffic based on various requirements
- Secure service-to-service communication
- Traffic shaping
- Circuit breaking
- Service observability
Again, all of these can be used by developers with very little, or no, code changes. When something is simple for users to consume, it usually means the system has a...