Istio Traffic Management

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

Do not use this skill when

• The task is unrelated to istio traffic management
• You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

• Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
• Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
• Provide actionable steps and verification.
• If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

Use this skill when

• 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