4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Istio first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have played with Istio but the code is legitimately awful, so the anecdotes of "I've never seen it work" make perfect sense to me.”
regret · personal · jrockway · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use istio in production ... it's an absolute shitload easier to manage.”
endorse · production · cyberpunk · 2020-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just spin up oauth2proxy to handle authentication with istio gateway.”
neutral · production · GloriousMEEPT · 2025-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it with Istio at the moment.”
neutral · production · tluyben2 · 2022-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?