NetScaler xDS adapter: A way to integrate NetScaler with Istio Service Mesh

A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that handles communication between microservices and provides capabilities like service discovery, load balancing, security, and monitoring. Istio is an open source and platform-independent service mesh that connects, monitors, and secures microservices.

NetScaler has advanced traffic management capabilities for enhancing application performance and provides comprehensive security. NetScaler integrations with Istio allow you to secure and optimize traffic for applications in the service mesh using NetScaler features.

The NetScaler xDS adapter is a container for integrating NetScaler with service mesh control plane implementations based on xDS APIs (Istio, Consul, and so on). It communicates with the service mesh control plane and listens for updates by acting as a gRPC client to the control plane API server. Based on the updates from the control plane, the NetScaler xDS-Adaptor generates the equivalent NetScaler configuration.

NetScaler xDS adapter: A way to integrate NetScaler with Istio Service Mesh

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