Kcna Kubernetes And Cloud Native Associate · Free Practice Question Medium
Question 9
Which of the following Istio components is primarily responsible for enforcing policies like rate limiting and access control in the service mesh?
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A
Istio-Operator
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B
Mixer
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C
Istio Gateway
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D
Envoy Proxy
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
A.
Istio-Operator is mainly for installing and managing Istio but does not enforce policies.
B.
Mixer enforces access control and usage policies, and collects telemetry data. It can handle tasks like rate limiting.
C.
The Istio Gateway deals with traffic entering and leaving the mesh but doesn't enforce rate limiting and access control policies.
D.
Although Envoy Proxy does intercept all network traffic for microservices, policy enforcement is not its primary role.
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