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
(681)
Product Description
HAProxy One helps you manage, secure, and observe all your application traffic — in any environment — with a unified platform. The platform consists of a flexible data plane (HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy ALOHA) for TCP, UDP, QUIC and HTTP traffic, a scalable control plane (HAProxy Fusion), and a secure edge network (HAProxy Edge), which together enable multi-cloud load balancing as a service (LBaaS), web app and API protection, API/AI gateways, Kubernetes networking, application delivery network (ADN), and end-to-end observability.
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, HAProxy is:
Better at support
Easier to set up
More usable
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 set up
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
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 set up
More usable
Better at support
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 set up
Better at meeting requirements
More usable
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

VMware NSX
By Broadcom
4.4/5
(79)
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
Better at support
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:
Better at support
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Istio:
Container Networking

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:
More usable
Easier to set up
Better at support
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
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Istio:
Service Mesh Tools

Linkerd
By Buoyant
4.3/5
(8)
Product Description
Linkerd is a transparent proxy that adds service discovery, routing, failure handling, and visibility to modern software applications
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Reviewers say compared to Istio, Linkerd is:
Better at support
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Istio:
Service Mesh Tools

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