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Overview
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Providing a non-intrusive microservice governance solution, ASM supports full-lifecycle management and traffic management and is compatible with the Kubernetes and Istio ecosystems. It hosts functions such as load balancing, outlier detection, and rate limiting.

Process Description
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The process of enabling Istio for a cluster is shown in the following figure.


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   :alt: **Figure 1** Process of enabling Istio for a cluster

   **Figure 1** Process of enabling Istio for a cluster
