Istio is a service mesh that extends Kubernetes to provide traffic management, telemetry, security, and policy for complex deployments.

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The image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/istio:latest

Istio images:

proxy

This is the data plane part of Istio, consisting of:

• A custom-built Envoy that contains Istio plugins (Wasm, telemetry)
• iptables to route inbound/outbound traffic through the Envoy proxy when acting as a sidecar
• pilot-agent to bootstrap the Envoy with some Istio-specific configurations

pilot

Istio Pilot provides mesh-wide traffic management, security and policy capabilities in the Istio Service Mesh.