DevOps Dictionary

Istio is an open source service mesh that enables organizations to run distributed, microservices-based applications seamlessly across any environment. Istio allows organisations to securely connect and monitor microservices, empowering them to modernise enterprise applications more effectively and securely. It helps organisations to deploy distributed applications at scale by streamlining service-to-service network operations such as traffic management, encryption, authorisation, auditing and observability. Istio is platform-independent and designed to run in a variety of environments like cloud, on premises, kubernetes and mesos.