March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
Mixer is a general-purpose policy and telemetry hub. It enforces access control and usage policies across the service mesh. Mixer includes a flexible plugin model that can abstract the Envoy proxy and Istio-managed services. This model allows Istio to interface with a variety of infrastructure backends.
Mixer is a platform-independent component of Istio that runs in Kubernetes or other environments.
The base model of Mixer allows it to connect to a variety of access control systems for authorization, telemetry capturing, quota enforcement, logging backend, and more. This can be seen in the following diagram:

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