Traffic Management
Describes the various Istio features focused on traffic routing and control.
- Overview. Provides a conceptual overview of traffic management in Istio and the features it enables.
- Pilot. Introduces Pilot, the component responsible for managing a distributed deployment of Envoy proxies in the service mesh.
- Request Routing. Describes how requests are routed between services in an Istio service mesh.
- Discovery & Load Balancing. Describes how traffic is load balanced across instances of a service in the mesh.
- Handling Failures. An overview of failure recovery capabilities in Envoy that can be leveraged by unmodified applications to improve robustness and prevent cascading failures.
- Fault Injection. Introduces the idea of systematic fault injection that can be used to uncover conflicting failure recovery policies across services.
- Rules Configuration. Provides a high-level overview of the domain-specific language used by Istio to configure traffic management rules in the service mesh.