Introducing Istio

I’m excited to see where this new collaboration between Google, IBM and Lyft called Istio goes. It combines microservices with Kubernetes with Envoy.

Key Istio features include:

• Automatic zone-aware load balancing and failover for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP traffic.
• Fine-grained control of traffic behavior with rich routing rules, fault tolerance, and fault injection.
• A pluggable policy layer and configuration API supporting access controls, rate limits and quotas.
• Automatic metrics, logs and traces for all traffic within a cluster, including cluster ingress and egress.
• Secure service-to-service authentication with strong identity assertions between services in a cluster.

Read more here: https://developer.ibm.com/dwblog/2017/istio/