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# Istio Proxy
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The Istio Proxy is a microservice proxy that can be used on the client and server side, and forms a microservice mesh. The Proxy supports a large number of features.
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Client Side Features:
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- *Discovery & Load Balancing*. The Proxy can use several standard service discovery and load balancing APIs to efficiently distribute traffic to services.
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- *Credential Injection*. The Proxy can inject client identity, either through connection tunneling or protocol-specific mechanisms such as JWT tokens for HTTP requests.
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- *Connection Management*. The Proxy manages connections to services, handling health checking, retry, failover, and flow control.
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- *Monitoring & Logging*. The Proxy can report client-side metrics and logs to the Mixer.
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Server Side Features:
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- *Rate Limiting & Flow Control*. The Proxy can prevent overload of backend systems and provide client-aware rate limiting.
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- *Protocol Translation*. The Proxy is a gRPC gateway, providing translation between JSON-REST and gRPC.
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- *Authentication & Authorization*. The Proxy supports multiple authentication mechanisms, and can use the client identities to perform authorization checks through the Mixer.
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- *Monitoring & Logging*. The Proxy can report server-side metrics and logs to the Mixer.
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To learn more...
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- User guide coming soon!
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- [Contributing to the project](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
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### Filing issues
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If you have a question about an Istio proxy or have a problem using one, please
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[file an issue](https://github.com/istio/proxy/issues/new).
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