A Service Fabric for Polyglot Microservices
Istio is an open source system providing a uniform way to deploy, manage, and connect microservices.
Istio is composed of:
- A Proxy handling service-to-service and external-to-service traffic.
- A Mixer supporting access checks, quota allocation and deallocation, monitoring and logging.
- A Manager handling system configuration, discovery, and automation.
The Milestones document outlines the current plan for upcoming releases.
See the Developer's Guide for information on how to build, test and use the project.
See the Contributing document for information on how to submit issues and change requests.
There are several communication channels available:
and of course the Istio github issues should be used to notify the team of bugs. See CONTRIBUTING for more information about issues.
The Istio community abides by the CNCF code of conduct. Here is an excerpt:
As contributors and maintainers of this project, and in the interest of fostering an open and welcoming community, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.