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Advanced Traffic Routing with Istio

Header-based routing, traffic mirroring, fault injection, and weighted splits for sophisticated deployment strategies.

🎯Key Takeaways
Header-based routing enables targeted testing
Traffic mirroring = shadow testing in production
Fault injection = chaos engineering built-in

Advanced Traffic Routing with Istio

Header-based routing, traffic mirroring, fault injection, and weighted splits for sophisticated deployment strategies.

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What you'll learn
  • Header-based routing enables targeted testing
  • Traffic mirroring = shadow testing in production
  • Fault injection = chaos engineering built-in

Advanced Routing Patterns

Istio VirtualServices support header-based routing (send beta users to v2), traffic mirroring (copy prod traffic to staging), weighted splits (90/10 canary), and fault injection (test circuit breakers). Each pattern enables safe, gradual rollouts.

Key takeaways

  • Header-based routing enables targeted testing
  • Traffic mirroring = shadow testing in production
  • Fault injection = chaos engineering built-in

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