The concept of istio inwhich it provides circuit breaking and load balancing on top of k8s network and pod management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can only work with predefined services. Does not work for round robin load distribution. Does not work for more complex scenarios with databases with direct ip connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used Istio on Kubernetes. Setup was easy, and it added lots of useful features like API Gateway, security, better load balancing, and distributed tracing. Which made managing prod issues match simple and save a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding lots of features means it will use more resources, which could slightly increase infrastructure cost, but it's worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can manage the orchestation easily. I also loved using Canary Deployment process and make our infrastructure more reliable because of zero downtime deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For almost 2 years using and learning about istio I don't have any dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abstraction of authentication/security when deploying microservices.

The developer does not have to add protection inside the microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

more examples and documentation needed to add-on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

zero code for logging and monitoring, great flexibility, service mesh, ingress controller, easy to integrate, security, authorization mechanisms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mismatch of versions between products, Lack of articles describing how to do something Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to collect meta information like logs, monitoring metrics,service discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It might be very benfit if istio uses very less resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to install with the new single component istiod Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I didn't find much aspects to dislike really Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to understand and good documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not have specific to tell I don't like anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

gateway and virtualservice are really fantastic feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont find personally any drawbacks on istio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.