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title: "What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-istio-the-kubernetes-service-mesh-explained-zi23kjbxq
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3328817/what-is-istio-the-kubernetes-service-mesh-explained.html
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2024-05-08T09:00:55.568Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:02:24.850Z
tags: ["istio", "kubernetes", "networking", "observability", "service-mesh"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Microservices architectures introduce complexities in managing network services like load balancing and authentication. Istio is a service mesh that provides management and abstraction for these services. It offers virtual services, destination rules, gateways, service entries, and sidecars to control network traffic. Istio's ambient mode allows deploying Istio without Envoy proxies, and it offers abstraction, non-destructive changes, and observability. Istio is platform-independent and can be integrated with Kubernetes or used stand-alone.

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Tags: [#istio](https://daily.dev/tags/istio), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#service-mesh](https://daily.dev/tags/service-mesh)

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