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Welcome to part three of our four-part Istio series, introducing a leading solution to microservices challenges. The Istio community is prolific, dynamic, and continues to introduce new features very frequently.

This article explains the Istio architecture, the Envoy proxy providing computational power, and the feature set that Istio supports.

Figure 1: Communication of services and proxy with Istio control plane

Compared to other service mesh solutions, Istio has the most advanced features that cater to modern architecture use cases.