---
title: mixs
overview: Mixer is Istio's abstraction on top of infrastructure backends.
layout: docs
order: 201
type: markdown
---

<a name="mixs_cmd"></a>
## mixs

Mixer is Istio's abstraction on top of infrastructure backends.

### Synopsis


Mixer is Istio's point of integration with infrastructure backends and is the
nexus for policy evaluation and telemetry reporting.

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## mixs inventory adapter

List available adapter builders

### Synopsis


List available adapter builders

```
mixs inventory adapter
```

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## mixs inventory aspect

List available aspects

### Synopsis


List available aspects

```
mixs inventory aspect
```

<a name="mixs_inventory"></a>
## mixs inventory

Inventory of available adapters and aspects in Mixer

### Synopsis


Inventory of available adapters and aspects in Mixer

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## mixs server

Starts Mixer as a server

### Synopsis


Starts Mixer as a server

```
mixs server
```

### Options

```
      --adapterWorkerPoolSize int     Max # of goroutines in the adapter worker pool (default 1024)
      --apiWorkerPoolSize int         Max # of goroutines in the API worker pool (default 1024)
      --clientCertFiles string        A set of comma-separated client X509 cert files
      --compressedPayload             Whether to compress gRPC messages
      --configAPIPort uint16          HTTP port to use for Mixer's Configuration API (default 9094)
      --configFetchInterval uint      Configuration fetch interval in seconds (default 5)
      --configStoreURL string         URL of the config store. May be fs:// for file system, or redis:// for redis url
      --expressionEvalCacheSize int   Number of entries in the expression cache (default 1024)
      --globalConfigFile string       Global Config
      --maxConcurrentStreams uint     Maximum supported number of concurrent gRPC streams (default 32)
      --maxMessageSize uint           Maximum size of individual gRPC messages (default 1048576)
  -p, --port uint16                   TCP port to use for Mixer's gRPC API (default 9091)
      --serverCertFile string         The TLS cert file
      --serverKeyFile string          The TLS key file
      --serviceConfigFile string      Combined Service Config
      --singleThreaded                Whether to run Mixer in single-threaded mode (useful for debugging)
      --trace                         Whether to trace rpc executions
```

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## mixs version

Prints out build version information

### Synopsis


Prints out build version information

```
mixs version
```