Kong would be more comparably to Istio, yes and we're big fans of it! We provide additional control capabilities on top of what Istio provides and can integrate

Kong would be more comparably to Istio, yes and we're big fans of it! We provide additional control capabilities on top of what Istio provides and can integrate with Istio for folks using it. Basically, if you're using Istio for a mesh, and you want to have that mesh also work with all your other non-mesh services, we help make that happen. You can also use Kong as an ingress controller for K8s or inject it as a sidecar proxy in K8s, which would give you very similar capabilities to using Envoy + Istio.