The Debate in the Community About Istio and Service Mesh
There is no shortage of debate in the community about the practicability of service mesh and Istio – here’s a list of common questions and concerns, and how to address them.
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Service Mesh - An Integral Part of Cloud-Native Applications
This article will explore the relationship between service mesh and cloud native.
Using Istio Service Mesh as API Gateway
What is the relationship between the service mesh and the API gateway? How does Istio’s gateway work? What are the ways to expose the services in the Istio mesh? This article gives you the answer.
Multicluster Management With Kubernetes and Istio
This article explains three patterns/tools for debugging microservices in Kubernetes and the changes brought by the introduction of Istio for debugging microservices.
How to Debug Microservices in Kubernetes With Proxy, Sidecar or Service Mesh?
This article explains three patterns/tools for debugging microservices in Kubernetes and the changes brought by the introduction of Istio for debugging microservices.
Happy Istio 4th Anniversary -- Retrospect and Outlook
Today is Istio’s 4 year birthday, let’s take a look back at Istio’s four years of development — and look forward to Istio’s future.
What Is Istio and Why Does Kubernetes Need it?
This article will explain how Istio came about and what it is in relation to Kubernetes.
Why Do You Need Istio When You Already Have Kubernetes?
This article will take you through the inner workings of Kubernetes and Istio. In addition, I will introduce the load balancing approach in Kubernetes, and explain why you need Istio when you have Kubernetes.
Why You Should Choose NGAC as Your Access Control Model
This article will introduce you to the next generation permission control model, NGAC, and compare ABAC, RABC, and explain why you should choose NGAC.
Istio 1.8: A Virtual Machine Integration Odyssey
In this article, I’ll give you an overview of Istio‘s history of virtual machine integration support. In particular, the introduction of the smart DNS proxy and WorkloadGroup in Istio 1.8, which makes virtual machines and containers equivalent at the resource abstraction level.