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frankbu committed Mar 17, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Istio is composed of three main components:
services. The proxies form a _secure microservice mesh_ providing a rich
set of functions like discovery, rich layer-7 routing, circuit breakers,
policy enforcement and telemetry recording/reporting
functions. **Note:** The service mesh is not an overlay network. It
simplifies and enhances how microservices in an application talk to each
other over the network provided by the underlying platform.
functions.

> Note: The service mesh is not an overlay network. It
> simplifies and enhances how microservices in an application talk to each
> other over the network provided by the underlying platform.
* **Mixer** - Central component that is leveraged by the proxies and microservices
to enforce policies such as ACLs, rate limits, quotas, authentication, request
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* **Manager** - A component responsible for configuring the
proxies and the mixer at runtime.

A high-level overview of Istio's components is available
[here](doc/overview.md). Istio currently only supports the Kubernetes
platform, although we plan support for additional platforms such as
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