d applications. Without requiring changes to the underlying services, Istio provides automated baseline traffic resilience, service metrics collection, distributed tracing, traffic encryption, protocol upgrades, and advanced routing functionality for all service-to-service communication.</p><p>For more detail, please see: <a href="/v0.4/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/">What is Istio?</a></p></div></div></div><div id="why-use-istio" class="panel panel-default"> <a class="panel-title" data-toggle="collapse" data