istio-traffic-management

Installation
Summary

Configure Istio routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments for service mesh traffic policies.

  • Covers four core resources: VirtualService for host-based routing, DestinationRule for service-level policies, Gateway for ingress/egress, and ServiceEntry for external services
  • Includes templates for basic routing, canary deployments (weighted traffic splits), circuit breakers with outlier detection, retries with timeouts, traffic mirroring, and fault injection
  • Supports multiple load balancing strategies including round-robin, least connections, random, and consistent hashing for sticky sessions
  • Provides debugging commands via istioctl for analyzing routes, endpoints, and traffic configuration
SKILL.md

Istio Traffic Management

Comprehensive guide to Istio traffic management for production service mesh deployments.

When to Use This Skill

  • Configuring service-to-service routing
  • Implementing canary or blue-green deployments
  • Setting up circuit breakers and retries
  • Load balancing configuration
  • Traffic mirroring for testing
  • Fault injection for chaos engineering

Core Concepts

1. Traffic Management Resources

Resource Purpose Scope
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