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            <h1 class="hero-title">Istio</h1>
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            <h1 class="hero-lead">An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</h1>
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                <h2>Intelligent Routing and Load Balancing</h2>
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                    Control traffic between services with dynamic route configuration,
                    conduct A/B tests, release canaries, and gradually upgrade versions using red/black deployments.
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                <h2>Resilience Across Languages and Platforms</h2>
                <p>Increase reliability by shielding applications from flaky networks and cascading failures in adverse conditions.</p>
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                <h2>Fleet-Wide Policy Enforcement</h2>
                <p>Apply organizational policy to the interaction between services, ensure access policies are enforced and resources are fairly distributed among consumers.</p>
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                <h2>In-Depth Telemetry and Reporting</h2>
                <p>Understand the dependencies between services, the nature and flow of traffic between them, and quickly identify issues with distributed tracing.</p>
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                <h2 class="doc-call-title">Want to learn more?</h2>
                <p class="doc-call-text">Get started by learning Istio concepts and doing our BookInfo sample.</p>
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