Service Mesh
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- At a high level, Istio helps reduce the complexity of deployments, and eases the strain on your development teams.
- It is a completely open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications.
- It is also a platform, including APIs that let it integrate into any logging platform, or telemetry or policy system.
- Istio’s enables to successfully, and efficiently, run a distributed microservice architecture, and provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices
Overhead involved
- Addition hops to access a service
- CPU and Memory consumption of workers for side cars