Managing traffic with Istio
Istio offers robust traffic management capabilities that form a core part of its functionality. When leveraging Istio for microservice management within your Kubernetes environment, you gain precise control over how these services communicate with each other. This empowers you to define the traffic path within your service mesh meticulously.
Some of the traffic management features at your disposal are as follows:
- Request routing
- Fault injection
- Traffic shifting
- TCP traffic shifting
- Request timeouts
- Circuit breaking
- Mirroring
The previous section employed an ingress gateway to enable traffic entry into our mesh and used a virtual service to distribute traffic to the services. With virtual services, the traffic distribution happens in a round-robin fashion by default. However, we can change that using destination rules. These rules provide us with an intricate level of control over the behavior of our mesh, allowing...
