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An Introduction to Istio
"If it makes it easier for users to use on the frontend, it's probably complex on the backend."
Istio is a large, complex system that provides benefits to your workloads by offering enhanced security, discovery, observability, traffic management, and more – all without requiring application developers to write modules or applications to handle each task.
For most people, it has a large learning curve, but once you have the Istio skills to deploy and operate a service mesh, you will be able to provide very complex offerings to your developers, including the ability to do the following:
- Route traffic based on various requirements
- Secure service-to-service communication
- Traffic shaping
- Circuit breaking
- Service observability ...
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