 can I join the Istio Slack workspace?</a></li></ol></nav></div><hr></nav><div class=faq><h5 id=what-is-istio class=question>What is Istio?</h5><div class=answer><p>Istio is an open platform-independent service mesh that provides traffic management, policy enforcement, and telemetry collection.</p><p><em>Open</em>: Istio is being developed and maintained as open-source software. We encourage contributions and feedback from the community at-large.</p><p><em>Platform-independent</em>: Istio is not targeted at