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by Bramcko16 2828 days ago
So what's the difference between this and istio?
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eikenberry 2828 days ago
There was a blog post just a few days ago comparing them (along with Linkerd and Consul Connect). Maybe it will help.

https://kubedex.com/istio-vs-linkerd-vs-linkerd2-vs-consul/

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SushiMon 2828 days ago
The post is long but it was really written from the POV of an infrastructure owner (DevOps) and not from the POV of a service owner/developer which is actually the target for Linkerd 2.0. FWIW - the post says it takes 5 mins to install Istio. I find that very, very hard to believe.
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raziel2p 2828 days ago
For different definitions of "installed", I guess. I've been at an Istio workshop and it was less than 5 minutes to have it up and functional. Tweaking it obviously takes longer but that's true for every tool.
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SushiMon 2828 days ago
Right - meaning live configured Grafana dashboards, TLS up and running, etc - beyond just console stuff.
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dylanz 2828 days ago
I’ve tried to install Istio on two clusters (at different points in time) and ran into blockers both times. YMMV.
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lhopki01 2828 days ago
It took me about 5 minutes and then a few more hours tweaking rules to match what our existing services needed.
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williamallthing 2828 days ago
Linkerd person here. The two projects have very different goals. I wrote some more about this on the Linkerd blog: https://blog.linkerd.io/2018/09/18/announcing-linkerd-2-0/
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