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Introduction to Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, Grafana, and Prometheus

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Are you curious about the magic behind those seamless web applications and services you use daily? Well, let's take a peek into the fascinating world of microservices and the tools that make them work like a charm: Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, Grafana, and Prometheus. These tools might sound a bit technical, but fear not! We're here to break it down in the simplest way possible. 1. Istio: The Traffic Director Istio is an open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. Istio’s powerful features provide a uniform and more efficient way to secure, connect, and monitor services. Istio is the path to load balancing, service-to-service authentication, and monitoring – with few or no service code changes.  The control plane takes your desired configuration, and its view of the services, and dynamically programs the proxy servers, updating them as the rules or the environment changes. Before utilizing Istio After utilizing Istio Imagine you're m