🆚 Apache APISIX vs. Istio

Apache APISIX is an open-source, cloud-native API gateway built on Nginx and LuaJIT.

It provides load balancing, dynamic upstreams, canary releases, circuit breaking, and traffic splitting, applies configuration changes through etcd without restarts, and includes over 100 plugins for authentication, traffic control, and observability.

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Istio is an open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments.

It can run with Envoy proxies injected into each service or in a proxy-free ambient mode, and provides canary releases, load balancing, circuit breakers, mutual TLS authentication, and observability through metrics, logs, and distributed traces for Prometheus and Grafana.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the API Gateways category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the API Gateways category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the API Gateways category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the API Gateways category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Apache APISIX technology profile
• Apache Software Foundation company profile

• Istio technology profile
• Linux Foundation company profile