Traffic routing and canary release

In the previous section, we went through some of the functionality of virtual services; in this section, let’s go through how you can distribute traffic to multiple destinations.

I’m assuming you have the envoy-dummy config map configured and the envoy Pod and service running as per the 01-envoy-proxy.yaml file. If not, follow the instructions in the previous section to get these configured.

In the following exercise, we will be creating another version of the envoydummy Pod called v2, which returns a different response than v1. We will deploy v2 alongside v1 and then configure traffic splitting between the two versions of the envoydummy Pods:

1. Create another version of the envoy mock service but with a different message:

   direct_response:
                     status: 200
              ...