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Once you install Istio, all your traffic goes through Envoy sidecar proxies automatically injected to your pods. Consul just provides service discovery (like DN
by alpb 8y ago
Once you install Istio, all your traffic goes through Envoy sidecar proxies automatically injected to your pods. Consul just provides service discovery (like DNS, which Kubernetes offers by default). By proxying traffic, Istio lets you program how your traffic works (traffic splitting, policies, monitoring, ...).
- manigandham 8y agoConsul 1.2 supports service mesh deployments with a new feature called Consul Connect. It includes a sidecar proxy. Good podcast episode about Hashicorp today: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/02/04/scaling-hashicorp-with-armon-dagdar-and-mitchell-hashimoto/ https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/02/04/scaling-hash...
- alpb 8y agoOh lordy, I guess everyone’s making service meshes now.