Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Introducing runtime components in Istio 

Istio contains a number of runtime components, is highly configurable in terms of what components to use, and provides fine-grained control over the configuration of each component. Refer to the Deploying Istio in a Kubernetes cluster section of this chapter for information on the configuration we will use in this chapter.

In the configuration used in this chapter, the Istio control plane consists of the following runtime components:

• Pilot: responsible for supplying all sidecars with updates of the service mesh configuration.
• Mixer: consists of two different runtime components:
  • Policy – enforces network policies such as authentication, authorization, rate limits, and quotas.
  • Telemetry – collects ...