Microsoft has launched the public preview of its Istio add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- The Istio add-on builds on top of the open-source Istio project and provides additional features such as verified external and internal ingress set-up, verified compatibility with supported versions of AKS, and Azure support for the add-on.
- The service mesh add-on will also handle scaling and configuration of Istio control plane, as well as the scaling of AKS components when Istio is enabled.
- The next steps on the roadmap include lifecycle management of Istio, mesh CA, multi-cluster mesh, and observability enhancements.
