IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. Linkerd
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 IBM Cloud Managed Istio | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools. | N/A |
 Linkerd | N/A | N/A | Linkerd is presented as an ultra light, ultra simple, and ultra powerful service mesh. Developed by Buoyant and now available CNCF-hosted and open source, the developers say that Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to Kubernetes, without the complexity. | N/A |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.7 | - |
| Support Rating | 6.4 | - |