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Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 3/18/2024
"Recommendation for GKE"
4/5
What do you like best about Istio on GKE?

Traffic Management

Security

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What do you dislike about Istio on GKE?

Bit complex to understand else everything is fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simran R.
Cloud Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 5/22/2023
"Best Monitoring Tool in GKE"
5/5
What do you like best about Istio on GKE?

The installation of Istio on GKE is very easy as it can be done with a click while creating the cluster. Best metrics are provided with the help of Istio so that we can monitor every way possible. It monitors the microservices, so if there is any issue within the cluster, it is easy to call it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Istio on GKE?

Not exactly a dislike, but as it comes to monitoring, along with the tool manual work is also needed. We can set up alerts but for forecasting, configurations, and regular check, we need human interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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"Best way to monitor your K8s cluster"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Istio on GKE?

With GKE installation was easy. You can install in a click while creating the K8s cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Istio on GKE?

Really can't add anything. Managing configuration is difficult. if you have multiple configuration on multiple system interactin with each other then it is very difficult to manage config.

how do you decide how many git repo you want.?

how do you move your config from staging to prod?

how to manage the variables intra system.

There is lots of human interaction in large clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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