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Istio vs Spring Cloud: What are the differences?

Developers describe Istio as "Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, by Google, IBM, and Lyft". Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc. On the other hand, Spring Cloud is detailed as "Spring helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable,fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications". Spring helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications.

Istio belongs to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack, while Spring Cloud can be primarily classified under "Container Tools".

Istio is an open source tool with 18.5K GitHub stars and 3.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Istio's open source repository on GitHub.

Zetaops, Swingvy, and Monkey Exchange are some of the popular companies that use Spring Cloud, whereas Istio is used by Cuemby, Entelo, and AgFlow. Spring Cloud has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 55 developers stacks; compared to Istio, which is listed in 32 company stacks and 30 developer stacks.

Decisions about Istio and Spring Cloud
Prateek Mittal
Fullstack Engineer| Ruby | React JS | gRPC at Ex Bookmyshow | Furlenco | Shopmatic · | 4 upvotes · 229.3K views
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IstioIstio
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KongKongTraefikTraefik

Istio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn-keyIstio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn key solution with Rancher whereas Kong completely lacks here. Traffic distribution in Istio can be done via canary, a/b, shadowing, HTTP headers, ACL, whitelist whereas in Kong it's limited to canary, ACL, blue-green, proxy caching. Istio has amazing community support which is visible via Github stars or releases when comparing both.

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    Zero code for logging and monitoring
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    Service Mesh
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    Great flexibility
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    Ingress controller
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    Powerful authorization mechanisms
  • 4
    Full Security
  • 4
    Resiliency
  • 4
    Easy integration with Kubernetes and Docker
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      What is Istio?

      Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

      What is Spring Cloud?

      It provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems.

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      What are some alternatives to Istio and Spring Cloud?
      linkerd
      linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.
      Envoy
      Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
      Kubernetes
      Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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      Conduit is a lightweight open source service mesh designed for performance, power, and ease of use when running applications on Kubernetes. Conduit is incredibly fast, lightweight, fundamentally secure, and easy to get started with.
      Kong
      Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
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