Istio

Envoy-based service mesh with mTLS, traffic management and telemetry.

Provider: default
Kind: Service mesh
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://istio.io/latest/docs/

Properties · 5 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
ambientMode · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
circuitBreaking	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
controlPlanes	integer	—	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
mtls	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
retries	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
sidecar	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "istio", component: "istio" }

Other Service mesh products · 11

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Istio: sidecar mesh with auto mTLS (permissive) and 2 default HTTP retries; circuit breaking via DestinationRule.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "istio"
6kind: "service-mesh"
7provider: "default"
8docs: "https://istio.io/latest/docs/"
9defaults:
10  managed: false
11  sidecar: true
12  mtls: true
13  retries: true
14  circuitBreaking: false
15properties:
16  ambientMode:
17    type: "boolean"
18    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/istio.md