Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments. Use when implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery, or resilience patterns.
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name: istio-traffic-management
description: Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments. Use when implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery, or resilience patterns.
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# 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 |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------- |
| **VirtualService** | Route traffic to destinations | Host-based |… load the full skill through Skill Me