Which Comes First: Istio or Kubernetes?

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Access to the grinding, digital gears that make what we know of as distributed architectures. Istio is an example of a management layer for Kubernetes, said Zack Butcher, part of the founding engineering team at Tetrate, a service mesh company.

One might hypothesize that it is first wise to deploy a Kubernetes environment and then add a service mesh to manage it all, Tetrate advised. However, this approach is not recommended, nor is it a good idea for organizations to begin their digital transformations by implementing Kubernetes and service meshes, such as Istio, at the same time.

Istio is still the same — it does a fantastic job of doing that within a single Kubernetes cluster, and continues to do so,” said Talwar.

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