Istio and Linkerd
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The two leading Kubernetes service meshes. Istio (Google/IBM) is feature-rich but complex, using Envoy proxies and providing extensive traffic management, security, and observability. Linkerd (CNCF) is lighter-weight and simpler, using its own Rust-based proxy (linkerd2-proxy). Both provide mTLS, retries, and observability.