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One of the more important changes: > Policy Checks Off By Default. Changed policy checks to be turned off by default to improve performance for most customer s
by twblalock 8y ago
One of the more important changes:
> Policy Checks Off By Default. Changed policy checks to be turned off by default to improve performance for most customer scenarios.
Given that the Mixer policy engine is a big selling point of Istio, it is disappointing that it hurts performance so much they decided to disable it by default.
- mandarjog 8y agoMixer policy is evolving to MixerV2 in upcoming releases. The mixer functionality will migrate inside the proxy so that policy decisions are taken locally. Until then we decided that it was better to make the customer explicitly enable it.