We decided to just try out Istio to see how it would go, and we ended up delivering in the space of about a week – more than we had done in the last four months trying to roll it ourselves.

Istio's extensibility, broad feature support and scalability make it a great choice for Airbnb.

We've used Istio since 1.3 and we've seen every version become incrementally better. We've seen it become easier to use, use less resources, and get easier to install.

Istio deployment is a no-brainer. You install it and it runs.

It felt like it could be the next Kubernetes, for service mesh.

Once you get the hang of it, it becomes very intuitive and easy to understand.

Istio enables an approach that allows you to start building right out of the box.

Istio seamlessly gave our team the ability to monitor services at any scale.

We have over 20 engineering teams using the platform, serving over 30 applications that are receiving traffic in production.

More features can be added without developer overhead.

I can't stress enough how big of an impact it can be to have generic observability instrumentation that can be immediately adopted by your users.

We have Istio in production. It's just been absolutely wonderful.

We see [Istio] as an architectural pattern that implements the security, observability, service routing and discovery functions as features of the infrastructure

Istio has simplified its operating model and it guarantees us the possibility to extend and benefit from the support of a large part of the Kubernetes ecosystem.