 any specific deployment environment. During the initial stages of development, Istio will support
Kubernetes-based deployments. However, Istio is being built to enable rapid and easy adaptation to other environments.</p><p><em>Service mesh</em>: Istio is designed to manage communications between microservices and applications. Without requiring changes to the underlying services, Istio provides automated baseline traffic resilience, service metrics collection, distributed tracing, traffic encryption, proto