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.

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.

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.