In this article by Lawrence E Hecht we look at review of industry studies of the service mesh. They indicate that Istio has an early lead as a preferred control plane.
However, service meshes usually also have a data plane component as well as other value-added functionality. The mix-and-matching of these often open-source components into bundled solutions is an ongoing process and may impact the eventual winners and losers in this space.
A recent report by StackRox shows that adoption of Istio in production doubled over the last year, but usage is still minuscule; Only 4% of the respondents say their organizations have it in production environments.
It is noteworthy that 86% of respondents in both the late 2018 and the December 2019 surveys said their organizations are using Kubernetes as one way to orchestrate containers and microservices.
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