Ignore the CNCF for a second. Both are open source, so will survive regardless, but the former has a single vendor behind it, and the latter has almost all the cloud industry.
There are valid use cases for FreeBSD, but the default choice is Linux.
The same could be said about Apple products, but that doesn't mean people should be dissuaded from using them. Quite the opposite: being in charge of a technology means you can be 100% focused on it and be relentlessly focused on making it great for your customers.
Anyone who reads these comments should be able to get an understanding of both service meshes without having to research other software.
Are you saying that istio IS kubernetes and linkerd is not? I don't think linkerd WANTS to be kubernetes.
I love your podcast, Craig, but this "hot take" is too hot to hold
More than half those companies ran istio in production at large scales.
Part of these decisions are based on things like “What is the rest of the industry doing?” “How vibrant/diverse is the community?” “How mature is the project _for enterprise adoption_?” “What vendors are available for enterprise support?” “Is it already available in my platform of choice?” etc.etc.
The sting of “picking the wrong container orchestrator” is still fresh in a lot of organizations.
We see Istio make it through these questions with good answers for a lot of organizations where other/alternative service mesh vendors strike out pretty quickly.
This is even before we get to the “feature comparisons” for usecases these large organizations focus on/have.