Observing and Troubleshooting your Microservices with Istio

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Istio instruments microservices via sidecar Envoy proxies, Pilot translating CRD routing into per-proxy config, Mixer exporting telemetry, and Citadel handling mTLS. Demo shows 5 second fault injection via a RouteRule, iptables capture of pod traffic, and a canary split changed from 90/10 to 0/100 by updating weighted clusters. Observability includes Envoy access logs, Prometheus-compatible metrics, distributed traces, and upcoming istioctl proxy-config and metrics commands to pull per-proxy routes and clusters for faster troubleshooting.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 8:11Feature list
3. 9:03Proxy
4. 11:00Service Mesh
5. 11:39Demo
6. 15:37Overview
7. 16:55Demonstration
8. 20:20Ingress Controller
9. 27:44Recap
10. 28:37Future of Istio
11. 30:38Commandline tools

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