Istio Traffic Management

If you're running Istio in production and need to set up canary deployments, circuit breakers, or traffic mirroring without digging through docs every time, this gives you ready-to-use YAML templates and a solid mental model of how VirtualServices, DestinationRules, and Gateways actually work together. The templates cover the common scenarios like weighted routing, retries with backoff, and fault injection for chaos testing. It's thorough on the "how do I configure this" part and includes debugging commands using istioctl. One thing to note: it assumes you already have Istio installed and understand basic service mesh concepts. This is for operators who know what they want to do but need the exact syntax and best practices to do it safely.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill istio-traffic-management --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

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.

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

1. Traffic Management Resources

Resource	Purpose	Scope
VirtualService	Route traffic to destinations	Host-based
DestinationRule	Define policies after routing	Service-based
Gateway	Configure ingress/egress	Cluster edge
ServiceEntry	Add external services	Mesh-wide