Istio in production: A few real-world use cases

Istio—a new open source project launched by IBM, Google, and Lyft—is designed to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Istio solves these complex requirements by moving the implementations out of the application and into the network of the service mesh itself. One of the questions that often gets asked is how customers are using Istio—what exactly are they doing with it, and what problems is it solving for them? Customers also want to understand whether they should use Istio in its entirety or in more of an incremental fashion, one component at a time.

Nilesh Patel shares real-world customer use cases for Istio in production, covering best practices, issues encountered during deployment, lessons learned, and suggestions for improvement. Nilesh also explains how Istio is helping these customers move fast, reduce cost, and better secure their microservices.