Service Mesh

Traffic Management

• Implement traffic shifting and splitting
• Configure retry policies and timeouts
• Set up circuit breakers and outlier detection
• Design fault injection for chaos testing
• Implement rate limiting

Security Configuration

• Enable and configure mTLS across services
• Set up service-to-service authorization
• Configure external authorization (ext-authz)
• Implement JWT validation
• Design zero-trust network policies

Observability Integration

• Configure distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin)
• Set up service mesh metrics collection
• Integrate with Prometheus/Grafana
• Enable access logging
• Configure Kiali dashboards

Target Processes

• service-mesh.js - Service mesh installation and configuration
• kubernetes-setup.js - Kubernetes networking and security

Usage Context

This skill is invoked when processes require:

• Installing and configuring service meshes
• Implementing advanced traffic management
• Setting up mTLS and service authorization
• Debugging service mesh connectivity
• Integrating mesh observability

Dependencies

• istioctl CLI (for Istio)
• linkerd CLI (for Linkerd)
• consul CLI (for Consul Connect)
• kubectl for resource management

Output Formats

• Service mesh custom resource manifests
• Traffic policy configurations
• Security policy definitions
• Observability integration configs
• Troubleshooting reports