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When implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery (canary/blue-green), or resilience patterns in an Istio-based Kubernetes cluster.
Ready-to-apply Istio manifests and operational guidance that configure routing, resilience, and safe progressive rollout with measurable traffic control.
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A platform team wants to release a new service version without full rollout risk. Using this skill, they apply the canary VirtualService/DestinationRule templates with 10% weighted traffic to canary, plus circuit breaker outlier detection. They validate via istioctl analyze and Kiali. This reduces blast radius, enables safe progressive delivery, and improves release confidence.
An SRE observes intermittent 5xx errors causing cascading failures. They use the circuit breaker and retry/timeout templates from this skill to set maxConnections, outlierDetection, and per-try timeouts on DestinationRule/VirtualService. After applying, istioctl proxy-config confirms policies. Result: isolated faulty pods, bounded retries, and restored stability.
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