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Istio

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An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices

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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.
                <a href="/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview/">Learn more...</a>
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            <h2>Resilience Across Languages and Platforms</h2>
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                Increase reliability by shielding applications from flaky networks and cascading failures in adverse conditions.
                <a href="/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures/">Learn more...</a>
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            <h2>Fleet-Wide Policy Enforcement</h2>
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                Apply organizational policies to the interaction between services, ensure access policies are enforced and resources are fairly distributed
                among consumers.
                <a href="/docs/concepts/policies-and-telemetry/overview/">Learn more...</a>
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            <h2>In-Depth Telemetry</h2>
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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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            <h2>Ready to get started?</h2>
            <p>Download the latest bits.</p>
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