owth of developers, operators, and partners. Our 0.1 release was focused on showing all the concepts of Istio in Kubernetes.</p><p>Today we are happy to announce the 0.2 release which improves stability and performance, allows for cluster wide deployment and automated injection of sidecars in Kubernetes, adds policy and authentication for TCP services, and enables expansion of the mesh to include services deployed in virtual machines. In addition, Istio can now run outside Kubernetes, leveraging Consul/Noma