gcaption>Istio Architecture</figcaption></figure><p>Refer to <a href=/v1.9/docs/ops/deployment/architecture/>architecture</a> for more details.</p><h2 id=core-features>Core features</h2><p>Istio provides a number of key capabilities uniformly across a network of
services:</p><h3 id=traffic-management>Traffic management</h3><p>Istio’s easy rules configuration and traffic routing lets you control the flow of traffic and API calls between services. Istio simplifies configuration of
service-level properties l