Istio Is Now the Fastest CNCF Project to Graduate

Istio is graduating as a CNCF project. This landmark occasion represents Istio’s growth and maturity as a critical part of the cloud-native landscape, marking an exciting new chapter for the most widely-deployed service mesh. Kubernetes was?the first project to achieve Graduated status?in 2018. Today, less than a year since it entered the CNCF as an incubating project, Istio joins that distinguished company—the fastest project to do so in CNCF history.

Tetrate was started by members of the founding Istio team with a goal to promote and expand service mesh adoption and has been a leading Istio contributor since inception. We’re proud and excited to see Istio—and the hard work and dedication of the Istio community—achieve the recognition this milestone represents.

What Does It Mean for Istio to Graduate?

CNCF projects are divided into three categories that serve as a marker for the maturity of the project:

Sandbox.?The CNCF “Sandbox” is the entry point for new projects within the CNCF. It provides a platform for early-stage projects to receive support, guidance and visibility from the CNCF community. The Sandbox is designed to be a safe and collaborative environment for these projects to experiment, innovate and mature.

Incubating.?Incubating projects have progressed beyond the early stage of development and have demonstrated potential for becoming a mature cloud-native technology. Istio was accepted to CNCF on September 30, 2022 as an Incubating project on the strength of its robust community and accelerating production use by early adopters.

Graduated.?Graduated projects have achieved a high level of maturity, adoption and importance within the cloud-native ecosystem. They have?met the CNCF graduation criteria?and are considered to be stable, production-ready solutions that have demonstrated their effectiveness, reliability and scalability in real-world deployments. Istio is now officially blessed by CNCF as such a solution, having proven?its strength of community, pace of development and growth of adoption among?“early-majority” enterprises.

What Does Istio Graduation Mean for Users?

For those already using it as a core piece of their infrastructure powering thousands of deployments, CNCF graduation is a validation of their vision of Istio as a critical component of modern application networking. For those looking to modernize their infrastructure, Istio’s graduated status is a strong signal that it’s a proven and powerful choice for scaling critical apps in production.?

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