If you’ve heard of service mesh and tried Istio, you may have the following questions:

1. Why is Istio running on Kubernetes?
2. What is the role of Kubernetes and a service mesh in the cloud native application architecture, respectively?
3. What aspects of Kubernetes does Istio extend? What problems does it solve?
4. What is the relationship between Kubernetes, Envoy, and Istio?

This article will take you through the inner workings of Kubernetes and Istio. In addition, I will introduce the load balancing approach in Kubernetes, and explain why you need Istio when you have Kubernetes.

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