How does it handle service resilience?

It provides configurations for circuit breaking, outlier detection, retries, and timeouts to prevent cascading failures in distributed systems.

Can this skill help with canary deployments?

Yes, it includes specialized templates for weighted traffic shifting to enable safe, incremental releases between service versions.

Which Istio resources are supported by this skill?

The skill provides comprehensive templates for VirtualServices, DestinationRules, Gateways, ServiceEntries, and traffic policies.

Does it support traffic debugging?

The skill includes a suite of istioctl commands to analyze configurations, view effective routes, and check endpoint discovery.

Istio Traffic Management

Name: Istio Traffic Management
Author: drgaciw

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Cloud Infrastructure

Configures Istio service mesh policies for advanced traffic routing, resilience, and progressive delivery in Kubernetes environments.

About

This skill enables Claude to architect and implement production-grade Istio traffic management strategies. It provides standardized templates and logic for configuring VirtualServices, DestinationRules, and Gateways to manage service-to-service communication. Whether you are implementing canary deployments, circuit breakers, or fault injection for chaos engineering, this skill provides the patterns necessary to ensure reliable, observable, and secure traffic flow across your microservices mesh.

Key Features

Load balancing strategies and sticky session management
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Resilience patterns including circuit breakers and outlier detection
Traffic mirroring for safe production testing
Advanced traffic routing and HTTP header-based matching
Automated canary and blue-green deployment configurations

Use Cases

Implementing progressive delivery for high-availability microservices
Setting up secure Ingress/Egress gateways for cluster traffic control
Strengthening system resilience through automated retries and failovers

About

Key Features

Load balancing strategies and sticky session management
0 GitHub stars
Resilience patterns including circuit breakers and outlier detection
Traffic mirroring for safe production testing
Advanced traffic routing and HTTP header-based matching
Automated canary and blue-green deployment configurations

Use Cases

Implementing progressive delivery for high-availability microservices
Setting up secure Ingress/Egress gateways for cluster traffic control
Strengthening system resilience through automated retries and failovers