io?</h2><p>While the easy transition to mTLS for all microservices was a strong incentive, Istio also has the backing of many large organizations. Auto Trader UK was already working with Google Cloud, so knowing that Google was a strong contributor and user of Istio gave them confidence it had long term support and will grow into the future.</p><p>Early success with experiments on GKE with Istio led to quick buy-in from the business. Along with an easy path to mTLS, they started enabling important observabi