Managed Istio Service Mesh Now Available on Google Cloud Platform

Organizations can now run a managed version of the Istio open source project on Google's cloud platform to connect, monitor and manage microservices.  Google, along with IBM and other members of the open source community July 31 announced the release into full production of Istio 1.0 the latest version of the software that is stable enough for running production workloads. Google released Istio to the open source community last May. Since then, the company has been working with IBM and several others to further develop the software, which is designed to help developers and DevOps teams more easily manage microservices in distributed cloud and hybrid computing environments.