Performance and Scalability

Introduces Performance and Scalability methodology, results and best practices for Istio components.

Overview. Provides a conceptual introduction to Istio's Performance and Scalability
Micro Benchmarks. Performance measurement through code level micro-benchmarks.
Testing scenarios. The different scenarios we are tracking for performance and scalability.
Synthetic End to End benchmarks. Fortio is our simple synthetic http and grpc benchmarking tool.
Realistic Application Benchmark. Performance measurement through realistic micro service application tests.
Automation. How we ensure performance is tracked and improves or does not regress across releases.
Scalability and Sizing Guide. Setup of Istio components to scale horizontally. High availability. Sizing guide.