Istio provides several tools to visualize traffic through our mesh through Istio add-ons. While Prometheus is the central telemetry data...
Author: Lisa DiFranco
Traffic mirroring – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-2
Following the completion of the Argo CD synchronization process, we’ll proceed to refresh the page five times. Subsequently, we can inspect the...
Traffic mirroring – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-1
Traffic mirroring, also called shadowing, is a concept that has recently gained traction. It is a powerful approach that allows you to assess your...
Traffic shifting and canary rollouts – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio
Consider a scenario where you’ve developed a new version of your microservice and are eager to introduce it to your user base. However, you’re...
Managing traffic with Istio – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-2
The provided YAML manifest introduces a DestinationRule resource named frontend within the blog-app namespace. This resource is associated with the...
Managing traffic with Istio – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-1
Istio offers robust traffic management capabilities that form a core part of its functionality. When leveraging Istio for microservice management...
Enforcing TLS within your service mesh – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-3
As we can see, we get an HTTP 404 response from the posts, reviews, and users microservices. The ratings microservice returns a 403 Forbidden...
Enforcing TLS within your service mesh – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-2
Therefore, we can define these interactions and only allow these connections explicitly. Therefore, the frontend microservice will not be able to...
Enforcing TLS within your service mesh – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio-1
As we know by now, by default, Istio provides TLS encryption for communication between workloads that have sidecar proxies injected. However, it’s...
Creating secure ingress gateways – Implementing Traffic Management, Security, and Observability with Istio
Secure ingress gateways are nothing but TLS-enabled ingress gateways. To enable TLS on an ingress gateway, we must provide it with a private key...