Istio Traffic Management

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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](./sub-skills/1-traffic-management-resources.md)
### 2. [2. Traffic Flow](./sub-skills/2-traffic-flow.md)
### 3. [Template 1: Basic Routing](./sub-skills/template-1-basic-routing.md)
### 4. [Template 2: Canary Deployment](./sub-skills/template-2-canary-deployment.md)
### 5. [Template 3: Circuit Breaker](./sub-skills/template-3-circuit-breaker.md)
### 6. [Template 4: Retry and Timeout](./sub-skills/template-4-retry-and-timeout.md)
### 7. [Template 5: Traffic Mirroring](./sub-skills/template-5-traffic-mirroring.md)
### 8. [Template 6: Fault Injection](./sub-skills/template-6-fault-injection.md)
### 9. [Template 7: Ingress Gateway](./sub-skills/template-7-ingress-gateway.md)
### 10. [Do's](./sub-skills/dos.md)
### 11. [Don'ts](./sub-skills/donts.md)