We performed a comparison between Istio and NGINX Service-Mesh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Isito, HAProxy, Kong and others in Service Mesh."We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic."
"The load balancing, service application, and monitoring of the life of the service are valuable features. We use it for authentication of call services, load balancing the calls among the service providers on service instances, and monitoring the health of the services."
"The tool's mutual TLS stands out. It provides secure communication between services within the cluster. Additionally, Istio offers built-in telemetry and tracing with tools like Jaeger, which aids monitoring and troubleshooting."
"Istio's best feature is that it's easy to use."
"Istio can save you time in terms of network troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features of Istio are the traffic management and the Sidecar they inject, which greatly helps secure the application."
"The solution is cost-effective and has good adaptability."
"For our use case that we applied it to, there were graph queues and the calls that were coming in. There were the things that we couldn't apply at the time, but it kind of worked."
"If someone doesn't understand Kubernetes, they'll have issues working with Istio."
"Istio needs to be more mature and user-friendly."
"If you're a beginner in infrastructure management and networking, learning Istio might pose some challenges. However, if you have some knowledge of networking or service meshes, you should find it manageable. Istio's website offers documentation to guide you through learning."
"Istio's documentation is basic and would benefit from more examples."
"It would be good if the solution had more community forums."
"NGINX Service Mesh could be improved by integrating more intelligence and stability through certifications and SSL certificates."
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Istio is ranked 1st in Service Mesh with 6 reviews while NGINX Service-Mesh is ranked 4th in Service Mesh with 1 review. Istio is rated 8.2, while NGINX Service-Mesh is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Istio writes "Provides traffic management and its mutual TLS authentication helps control the access policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Service-Mesh writes "A cost-effective and fully integrated service mesh that has good adaptability". Istio is most compared with Kong Mesh, HAProxy, AWS App Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and Envoy, whereas NGINX Service-Mesh is most compared with Envoy, HashiCorp Consul, AWS App Mesh, Kong Mesh and Buoyant Linkerd.
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