istio-traffic-management

version: 4.1.0-fractal name: istio-traffic-management description: Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments. Use when implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery, or resilience patterns.

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

🧠 Knowledge Modules (Fractal Skills)

1. 1. Traffic Management Resources

2. 2. Traffic Flow

3. Template 1: Basic Routing

4. Template 2: Canary Deployment

5. Template 3: Circuit Breaker

6. Template 4: Retry and Timeout

7. Template 5: Traffic Mirroring

8. Template 6: Fault Injection

9. Template 7: Ingress Gateway

10. Do's

11. Don'ts