istio-traffic-management
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.
Profile →npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill istio-traffic-management --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Istio Traffic Management Comprehensive guide to Istio traffic management for production service mesh deployments. ## When to Use This Skill - 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 | ### 2. Traffic Flow ``` Client → Gateway → VirtualService → DestinationRule → Service (routing) (policies) (pods) ``` ## Templates ### Template 1: Basic Routing ```yaml apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1 kind: VirtualService metadata: name: reviews-route namespace: bookinfo spec: hosts: - reviews http: - match: - headers: end-user: exact: jason route: - destination: host: reviews subset: v2 - route: - des
- When to Use This Skill
- Core Concepts
- 1. Traffic Management Resources
- 2. Traffic Flow
- Templates
- Template 1: Basic Routing
- Template 2: Canary Deployment
- Template 3: Circuit Breaker
- Template 4: Retry and Timeout
- Template 5: Traffic Mirroring
- Template 6: Fault Injection
- Template 7: Ingress Gateway
- Load Balancing Strategies
- Best Practices
Check VirtualService configuration istioctl analyze View effective routes istioctl proxy-config routes deploy/my-app -o json Check endpoint discovery istioctl proxy-config endpoints deploy/my-app Debug traffic istioctl proxy-config log deploy/my-app --level debug
What does the istio-traffic-management skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill istio-traffic-management --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From wshobson/agents, a repository with 38,479 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.