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            <h1 class="hero-lead">An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices</h1>
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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.
                    <a href="/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview/">Learn more...</a>
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                    Increase reliability by shielding applications from flaky networks and cascading failures in adverse conditions.
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                    Apply organizational policies to the interaction between services, ensure access policies are enforced and resources are fairly distributed
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                    Understand the dependencies between services, the nature and flow of traffic between them, and quickly identify issues with distributed tracing.
                    <a href="/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview/">Learn more...</a>
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                <h2>Want to learn more?</h2>
                <p>Get started by learning Istio concepts and running through our BookInfo sample.</p>
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