With many microservices deployed across multicloud and hybrid infrastructure (cloud, containers, and VMs), the manageability of the network becomes challenging. The transactions among services happen on the public network, so the sensitivity of the matter increases magnitudinally with rising incidents of hacking and cyberattacks.
Istio service mesh is becoming a center of app modernization for large and medium enterprises. Due to Istio’s phenomenal ability to manage and secure the network across cloud and container workloads, the cloud team and DevOps platform teams consider Istio service mesh for the first round of evaluation.