Apigee Istio adapter

I am wondering, do I need to have apigee gateway in front of microservices if we are already using apigee istio adapter as this adapter will provide api management capabilities as well. Can someone add their thought on when it make sense to have both (Apigee API Gateway & Apigee Istio adapter)?

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sidd-harth
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Honestly speaking, I am not an expert on Apigee Istio Adapter but lets me provide some info. Please double check the answer/points before using them.

We do require both Apigee Edge & Apigee Istio Adapter This Adapter acts as a connection between Apigee Edge & Istio enabled Microservices on kubernates. The adapter provides some of these capabilities, including security, caching, and quota enforcement.

API Keys, Products, Cache, certificates, proxies are created and maintained on Apigee Edge.

The adapter also pushes analytics data to the Apigee Edge Analytics platform. You can view this data using the dashboards provided in the Apigee Edge UI.

https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/istio-adapter/installation

https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/istio-adapter/concepts

++ @Greg Brail for more info