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About Istio Security

Istio securely provisions identities to every workload using X.509 certificates.

Products

  • Istiod: Consolidated control plane binary that encapsulates the functions of Pilot, Galley, Citadel, and the sidecar injector.

Used for

  • Encrypting service-to-service traffic to defend against man-in-the-middle attacks.
  • Enforcing fine-grained access policies between services.
  • Auditing who accessed what at what time.
  • Validating TLS certificates signed by non-standard or private CAs.

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