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Last week IBM and Google announced Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Istio improves the visibility of the data flowing between the different services and the good news for developers is that you don’t have to change your code.

There is good documentation available, but in a nutshell, Istio inserts proxies in pods which are called instead of the custom containers (services) directly. This allows Istio to control and monitor the requests to the services. As a developer, you simply use Istio to automatically add a bunch of additional containers and pods to your Kubernetes deployments without having to change your app.

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