Is Istio a service mesh?

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Tags

1. #combined
2. #envoy
3. #abstraction
4. #based
5. #proxy
6. #sidecar
7. #intentionally
8. #architecture
9. #control
10. #containers
11. #plane
12. #designed
13. #efforts
14. #service
15. #enabled
16. #google
17. #patterns
18. #created
19. #istio