I recommend staying away from Istio unless you have experienced team of Isto ops and very good reasons for using it. I tried it a year ago and it was not pleasa

I recommend staying away from Istio unless you have experienced team of Isto ops and very good reasons for using it. I tried it a year ago and it was not pleasant at all. It looks nice (Kiali) when it works but it's a nightmare once it stops working. Using TLS complicates debugging. It lacked basic functuionality like simple Basic Auth (just recently implemented in wasm) and they deprecated original plugin architecture. At one point it started logging out certificate problems for me, I spent hours on it trying to figure out what happens. Then tried to upgrade to newer Istio and it magically fixed it so I think they shipped a broken build but comparing commits resulted in so many changes that I was unable to figure out what happened. It's unnecessary complicated layer which almost no one really needs! Maybe in the future it will be a standard but maybe not, I strongly don't recommend it unless you know what you are doing and have work/troubleshoot capacity.