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Istio vs Traefik Enterprise comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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Users manage issues via self-help and forums; direct engagement provides expert support, with abundant online documentation available.
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Room For Improvement

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7.5
Istio faces challenges with setup complexity, performance, and support, highlighting the need for improved documentation and user-friendly features.
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Reducing the latency between the control plane and the data plane would be beneficial.
 

Scalability Issues

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Istio is highly rated for scalability with Kubernetes, offering automation and control plane improvements, yet some performance challenges remain.
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Handling large-scale environments with proxies can strain resources, but horizontal scaling can improve fault tolerance.
 

Setup Cost

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Istio provides cost-effective open-source deployment, although infrastructure and integration with observability tools may incur additional expenses.
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Integration with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch incurs additional costs.
 

Stability Issues

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8.0
Istio is generally stable and reliable under moderate traffic, but proper setup is vital to avoid misconfigurations and bugs.
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The architecture, configuration, and resource management can impact stability.
 

Valuable Features

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Istio enhances observability, security, and management through load balancing, traffic routing, monitoring tools, and flexible integration capabilities.
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The security feature with mutual TLS authentication, which is identity-based, and the traffic management using cloud load balancers are very valuable.
 

Categories and Ranking

Istio
Ranking in Service Mesh
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Traefik Enterprise
Ranking in Service Mesh
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
API Management (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Service Mesh category, the mindshare of Istio is 21.9%, down from 22.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Traefik Enterprise is 8.0%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

JETTI DINESH REDDY - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced microservice security and advanced traffic management and good authentification
When our developers are building the microservices, instead of imposing additional burdens or additional thinking on them, especially as part of network features such as traffic management, security, or observability, we deploy something from the infrastructure side, so developers need only focus…
Anurag Bandyopadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers a good dashboard that provides a great overview to users
I would say that maybe along the same path that Traefik Enterprise is currently on, you have most of the things straight up in the UI that you can check even with minimal training. You can just use, understand, and debug things from the UI. There is still work to be done in the tool, which can ensure that anyone with just minimal know-how of the product doesn't have to really go into the terminal and see the status of routes, concierge routes, or whether certain things are up or not. One should be able to just check things straight up from the UI and get to know what kind of issues are there in the solution, and even though such a feature is already there in the tool, there is more work to be done in it. I would not particularly recommend any improvements when it comes to the security of traffic. I think the tool is pretty pluggable in terms of whatever security we want to put in our routes, even though it is just as a middleware or just as a supporting product for whatever we have in our services.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Istio?
Istio provides a significant saving for us in terms of costs since it is open source. However, Istio can still come at a price. It has a steep learning curve and might require more manpower hours ...
What do you like most about Istio?
We use Istio for Service Discovery and routing traffic.
What needs improvement with Istio?
There's a new product being worked on, with contributions from the team at Solo.io, called Ambient Mesh. This is being built into the open-source project. The purpose of Ambient Mesh was to make it...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Traefik Enterprise?
One of the reasons why my company moved from Envoy, as well as the other in-house options, to Traefik Enterprise was because doing many things in-house was overkill. Traefik Enterprise was a relati...
What needs improvement with Traefik Enterprise?
I would say that maybe along the same path that Traefik Enterprise is currently on, you have most of the things straight up in the UI that you can check even with minimal training. You can just use...
What is your primary use case for Traefik Enterprise?
At Razorpay, the tool is used as a reverse proxy, ingress controller, and CRD management. A year and a half ago, my company started to move from Traefik Enterprise v1.0 to Traefik Enterprise v2.0. ...
 

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