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Istio's {{ site.data.istio.version }} release provides an early preview of the intended functionality and user experience of our service mesh. We are hoping to solicit early feedback on direction and design decisions.

The {{ site.data.istio.version }} release includes the following features:

• Simple command-line installation into a Kubernetes cluster

• Scripted proxy injection with traffic capture via iptables

• L7 traffic routing rules

• In-cluster load balancing for HTTP, gRPC & TCP

• Cluster Ingress and Egress

• Fault injection

• In-memory rate limiting

• L7 Metrics and Logs collection

• Secure service-to-service authentication with strong identity

• Pluggable policy layer and configuration API

See our release notes for more details.