Istio-operator feature comparison
The Calisti team actively maintains its fully upstream-compatible Istio distribution and several open-source projects and integrations that serve as the basis for Cisco Service Mesh Manager. From the perspective of Istio management, the Calisti team maintains the following:
- The Istio operator is an open source project, which is the core component involved in Istio control plane and gateway lifecycle management for Cisco Service Mesh Manager.
- Calisti Service Mesh Manager is a commercial product that includes all the features mentioned in this guide, enterprise support, and optionally integration support for customer environments.
Istio operator | Calisti Service Mesh Manager | |
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Install Istio | ✓ | ✓ |
Manage Istio | ✓ | ✓ |
Upgrade Istio | ✓ | ✓ |
Uninstall Istio | ✓ | ✓ |
Multiple gateways support | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi cluster support | needs some manual steps | fully automatic |
Prometheus | ✓ | |
Grafana | ✓ | |
Jaeger | ✓ | |
Cert manager | ✓ | |
Dashboard | ✓ | |
CLI | ✓ | |
OIDC authentication | ✓ | |
VM integration | ✓ | |
Topology graph | ✓ | |
Outlier detection | ✓ | |
Service Level Objectives | ✓ | |
Live access logs | ✓ | |
mTLS management | ✓ | |
Gateway management | ✓ | |
Istio traffic management | ✓ | |
Validations | ✓ | |
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