
Istio 1.6: Rolling Out Istiod
Istio 1.6 completes the istiod consolidation, refines telemetry v2, and simplifies ingress and upgrade workflows.
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Istio 1.6 completes the istiod consolidation, refines telemetry v2, and simplifies ingress and upgrade workflows.

Istio 1.4 trims resource usage, simplifies traffic config, and modernizes telemetry pipelines for production meshes.

Knative 0.8 refines v1alpha2 APIs, blue/green routing, and autoscaling signals for Kubernetes serverless platforms.

Istio 1.0 graduates the service mesh to production readiness with stable APIs, security hardening, and Kubernetes-native operations.

Istio 0.1 debuts a full-featured service mesh built on Envoy, Pilot, Mixer and Citadel—bringing traffic management, observability and policy to Kubernetes.