Top 10 Istio Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Istio Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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HAProxy
By HAProxy
4.7/5
(890)
Product Description
HAProxy is an open-source software load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications. It provides high availability, load balancing, and best-in-class SSL processing. HAProxy One is an application delivery and security platform that combines the HAProxy core with enterprise-grade security layers, management and orchestration, cloud-native integration, and more. Platform components: HAProxy Enterprise: a flexible data plane layer for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP-based applications that provides high-performance load balancing, high availability, an API/AI gateway, container networking, SSL processing, DDoS protection, bot detection and mitigation, global rate limiting, and a web application firewall (WAF). HAProxy Fusion: a scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, observability, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments, with infrastructure integration for AWS, Kubernetes, Consul, and Prometheus. HAProxy Edge: a globally distributed application delivery network that provides fully managed application delivery and security services, a secure partition between external traffic and origin networks, and threat intelligence enhanced by machine learning that powers the security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise. Learn more at HAProxy.com.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, HAProxy is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to set up
Better at support
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

Traefik
By Traefik Labs
4.6/5
(35)
Product Description
Traefik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, Traefik is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

HashiCorp Consul
By HashiCorp
4.3/5
(23)
Product Description
Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, HashiCorp Consul is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking
Service Mesh Tools

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F5 NGINX
By F5
4.6/5
(107)
Product Description
free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, F5 NGINX is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

VMware NSX
By Broadcom
4.4/5
(80)
Product Description
NSX enables the creation of entire networks in software and embeds them in the hypervisor layer, abstracted from the underlying physical hardware.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, VMware NSX is:
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

NetScaler
By Cloud Software Group
4.4/5
(85)
Product Description
NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform for large enterprises that need high-performance application delivery, integrated security, and end-to-end observability. Because NetScaler abstracts the complexities of networking configuration and works the same in both on-premises and cloud environments, infrastructure and operations teams can move faster to deliver new products and services.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, NetScaler is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

AWS App Mesh
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.3/5
(14)
Product Description
AWS App Mesh makes it easy to monitor and control microservices running on AWS. App Mesh standardizes how your microservices communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high-availability for your applications.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, AWS App Mesh is:
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with Istio:
Service Mesh Tools

Codefresh
By Octopus Deploy
4.6/5
(70)
Product Description
Codefresh manages your complete build, test, and deploy pipeline with native support for integration tests.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, Codefresh is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

Calico
By Tigera
4.5/5
(42)
Product Description
Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. We are also the creator and maintainer of Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Calico software powers more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, and is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, Calico is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking