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title: Charmhub | Deploy Istio using Charmhub - The Open Operator Collection
description: Deploy the latest version of Istio as a Kubernetes Operator on any cloud.
  A Juju charm to operate an Istio service mesh
url: https://charmhub.io/istio-k8s
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# Istio

[Canonical Observability](https://charmhub.io/publisher/observability "View all packages from Canonical Observability")

* [Canonical Observability](https://charmhub.io/publisher/observability "View all packages from Canonical Observability")

Platform:

1/stable rev28-3-ga66284f

```
juju deploy istio-k8s --channel 1/stable
```

[Learn to deploy on juju >](https://juju.is/docs/juju/manage-applications)

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#### Relevant links

* [Homepage](https://charmhub.io/istio-k8s)

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#### Contacts

* [Submit a bug](https://github.com/canonical/istio-k8s-operator/issues)

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# Istio Service Mesh Charmed Operator

[Istio](https://istio.io/) is an open source project that implements a service mesh, allowing for a way to observe and control the traffic flow between applications in Kubernetes. Istio is a key tool in securing Kubernetes workloads and hardening your environment.

The **istio-k8s** Charmed Operator deploys and manages the Istio control plane components in a Kubernetes cluster. The operator is designed to be used in conjunction with the istio-beacon-k8s and istio-ingress-k8s charms to deploy and configure Istio using Juju.

For more information, please refer to [our service mesh tutorial](https://canonical-service-mesh-documentation.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/tutorial/get-started-with-the-charmed-istio-mesh/) or [our service mesh documentation](https://canonical-service-mesh-documentation.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/).

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