Istio service mesh — traffic management, security policies, observability, and microservice networking.
Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes is one of those topics that sounds straightforward until you're three months into a production incident because Team A's micros...
Quick reference for debugging `no healthy upstream` errors caused by Pilot xDS push failures in multi-cluster Istio setups. --- You're running a multi-clus...
Let's be honest: if you're running a service mesh in production, you're going to need custom header manipulation. Whether it's adding security headers, tra...
Nothing ruins your day quite like a 503 Service Unavailable error when you've spent hours configuring your shiny new Istio service mesh. I've been there mo...
Step-by-step guide to diagnose and fix Istio sidecar proxy not being injected into Kubernetes pods, covering namespace labels, webhook configuration, and annotation overrides.
Install Istio on Kubernetes, understand the control plane architecture, deploy your first sidecar proxy, and configure namespace injection.
Enable mutual TLS in Istio, configure PeerAuthentication and AuthorizationPolicy, and secure service-to-service communication with zero-trust principles.
Leverage Istio's built-in observability — Kiali service graph, Jaeger distributed tracing, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana dashboards for your service mesh.
Configure Istio VirtualServices, DestinationRules, and Gateways for advanced traffic routing, canary deployments, fault injection, and circuit breaking.