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Cloud</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup an AWS cluster with Kops cluster for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/aws/>Amazon Web Services</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup an Azure cluster for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/azure/>Azure</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/gke/>Google Kubernetes Engine</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup an IBM Cloud cluster for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/ibm/>IBM Cloud</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup Minikube for use with Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/minikube/>Minikube</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup an OpenShift cluster for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/platform-setup/openshift/>OpenShift</a></li><li><a title="Instructions to setup an OKE cluster for Istio." 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href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/sidecar-injection/>Installing the sidecar</a></li><li><a title="Install minimal Istio using Helm." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/minimal-install/>Minimal Istio Installation</a></li><li><a title="Install Istio with the included Ansible playbook." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/ansible-install/>Installation with Ansible</a></li><li><a title="Instructions for integrating VMs and bare metal hosts into an Istio mesh deployed on Kubernetes." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/mesh-expansion/>Mesh Expansion</a></li><li><a title="Install Istio with multicluster support." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/multicluster-install/>Istio Multicluster</a></li><li><a title="How to quickly setup Istio using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)." href=/v1.0/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start-gke/>Quick Start with Google Kubernetes Engine</a></li><li><a title="Demonstrates how to upgrade the Istio control plane and data plane independently." 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Tasks</div></a></div><div id=collapse33 class=collapse data-parent=#sidebar role=tabpanel aria-labelledby=header33><div class=card-body><ul class=tree><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Tasks that demonstrate Istio's traffic routing features." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/>Traffic Management</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="This task shows you how to configure dynamic request routing to multiple versions of a microservice." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-routing/>Configuring Request Routing</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to inject faults to test the resiliency of your application." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/fault-injection/>Fault Injection</a></li><li><a title="Shows you how to migrate traffic from an old to new version of a service." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/traffic-shifting/>Traffic Shifting</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to setup request timeouts in Envoy using Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-timeouts/>Setting Request Timeouts</a></li><li><a title="Describes how to configure Istio to expose a service outside of the service mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/>Control Ingress Traffic</a></li><li><a title="Describes how to configure Istio to expose a service outside of the service mesh, over TLS, mutual TLS or JWT authentication." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/secure-ingress/>Securing Gateways with HTTPS</a></li><li><a title="Describes how to configure Istio to route traffic from services in the mesh to external services." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/>Control Egress Traffic</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to configure circuit breaking for connections, requests, and outlier detection." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/circuit-breaking/>Circuit Breaking</a></li><li><a title="This task demonstrates the traffic mirroring/shadowing capabilities of Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/mirroring/>Mirroring</a></li><li><a title="Shows how to do health checking for Istio services." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/app-health-check/>Health Checking of Istio Services</a></li></ul></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Demonstrates how to secure the mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/>Security</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Shows you how to use Istio authentication policy to setup mutual TLS and basic end-user authentication." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/authn-policy/>Authentication Policy</a></li><li><a title="Shows you how to verify and test Istio's automatic mutual TLS authentication." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/mutual-tls/>Mutual TLS Deep-Dive</a></li><li><a title="Shows how to set up role-based access control for services in the mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/role-based-access-control/>Authorization</a></li><li><a title="Shows how operators can configure Citadel with existing root certificate, signing certificate and key." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/plugin-ca-cert/>Plugging in external CA key and certificate</a></li><li><a title="Shows how to enable Citadel health checking with Kubernetes." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/health-check/>Citadel health checking</a></li><li><a title="Shows you how to incrementally migrate your Istio services to mutual TLS." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/mtls-migration/>Mutual TLS Migration</a></li><li><a title="Shows how to enable mutual TLS on HTTPS services." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/security/https-overlay/>Mutual TLS over HTTPS</a></li></ul></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Demonstrates policy enforcement features." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/>Policies</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="This task shows you how to use Istio to dynamically limit the traffic to a service." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/rate-limiting/>Enabling Rate Limits</a></li><li><a title="Shows how to control access to a service using simple denials or white/black listing." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/denial-and-list/>Denials and White/Black Listing</a></li></ul></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Demonstrates how to collect telemetry information from the mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/>Telemetry</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="How to configure the proxies to send tracing requests to Zipkin or Jaeger." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/distributed-tracing/>Distributed Tracing</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to configure Istio to collect metrics and logs." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/metrics-logs/>Collecting Metrics and Logs</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to configure Istio to collect metrics for TCP services." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/tcp-metrics/>Collecting Metrics for TCP services</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to query for Istio Metrics using Prometheus." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/querying-metrics/>Querying Metrics from Prometheus</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to setup and use the Istio Dashboard to monitor mesh traffic." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/using-istio-dashboard/>Visualizing Metrics with Grafana</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to visualize your services within an Istio mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/kiali/>Visualizing Your Mesh</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to generate a graph of services within an Istio mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/servicegraph/>Generating a Service Graph</a></li><li><a title="This task shows you how to configure Istio to log to a Fluentd daemon." href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/telemetry/fluentd/>Logging with Fluentd</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div><div class=card><div class=card-header role=tab id=header46><a data-toggle=collapse href=#collapse46 title="A variety of fully working example uses for Istio that you can experiment with." role=button aria-controls=collapse46><div><img src=/v1.0/img/examples.svg alt=Icon class=page_icon>
Examples</div></a></div><div id=collapse46 class=collapse data-parent=#sidebar role=tabpanel aria-labelledby=header46><div class=card-body><ul class=tree><li><a title="Deploys a sample application composed of four separate microservices used to demonstrate various Istio features." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo Application</a></li><li><a title="Demonstrates how to use various traffic management capabilities of an Istio service mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/intelligent-routing/>Intelligent Routing</a></li><li><a title="Demonstrates how to obtain uniform metrics, logs, traces across different services using Istio Mixer and Istio sidecar." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/telemetry/>In-Depth Telemetry</a></li><li><a title="Explains how to manually integrate Google Cloud Endpoints services with Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/endpoints/>Install Istio for Google Cloud Endpoints Services</a></li><li><a title="Illustrates how to use Istio to control a Kubernetes cluster and raw VMs as a single mesh." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/integrating-vms/>Integrating Virtual Machines</a></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="A variety of fully working examples for egress traffic control in Istio that you can experiment with." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/advanced-egress/>Advanced egress traffic control</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Describes how to configure Istio to perform TLS origination for traffic to external services." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/advanced-egress/egress-tls-origination/>TLS Origination for Egress Traffic</a></li><li><a title="Describes how to configure Istio to direct traffic to external services through a dedicated gateway." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/advanced-egress/egress-gateway/>Configure an Egress Gateway</a></li></ul></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="A variety of fully working multicluster examples for Istio that you can experiment with." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/multicluster/>Enabling multiclusters</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Example multicluster GKE install of Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/multicluster/gke/>Google Kubernetes Engine</a></li><li><a title="Example multicluster IBM Cloud Private install of Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/multicluster/icp/>IBM Cloud Private</a></li><li><a title="Example multicluster between IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service & IBM Cloud Private." href=/v1.0/docs/examples/multicluster/iks-icp/>IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service & IBM Cloud Private</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div><div class=card><div class=card-header role=tab id=header78><a data-toggle=collapse href=#collapse78 title="Detailed authoritative reference material such as command-line options, configuration options, and API calling parameters." role=button aria-controls=collapse78><div><img src=/v1.0/img/reference.svg alt=Icon class=page_icon>
Reference</div></a></div><div id=collapse78 class=collapse data-parent=#sidebar role=tabpanel aria-labelledby=header78><div class=card-body><ul class=tree><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Detailed information on configuration options." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/>Configuration</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Describes how to configure Istio's authorization features." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/authorization/>Authorization</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Describes the supported constraints and properties." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/authorization/constraints-and-properties/>Constraints and Properties</a></li><li><a title="Configuration for Role Based Access Control." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/authorization/istio.rbac.v1alpha1/>RBAC</a></li></ul></li><li><a title="Describes the options available when installing Istio using the included Helm chart." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/installation-options/>Installation Options</a></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Describes how to configure Istio's policy and telemetry features." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/>Policies and Telemetry</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Describes the base attribute vocabulary used for policy and control." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/attribute-vocabulary/>Attribute Vocabulary</a></li><li><a title="Mixer configuration expression language reference." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/expression-language/>Expression Language</a></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Mixer adapters allow Istio to interface to a variety of infrastructure backends for such things as metrics and logs." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/>Adapters</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Adapter for Apigee's distributed policy checks and analytics." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/apigee/>Apigee</a></li><li><a title="Adapter for circonus.com's monitoring solution." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/circonus/>Circonus</a></li><li><a title="Adapter for cloudwatch metrics." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/cloudwatch/>CloudWatch</a></li><li><a title="Adapter to deliver metrics to a dogstatsd agent for delivery to DataDog." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/datadog/>Datadog</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that always returns a precondition denial." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/denier/>Denier</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that delivers logs to a fluentd daemon." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/fluentd/>Fluentd</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that extracts information from a Kubernetes environment." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/kubernetesenv/>Kubernetes Env</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that performs whitelist or blacklist checks." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/list/>List</a></li><li><a title="Adapter for a simple in-memory quota management system." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/memquota/>Memory quota</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that implements an Open Policy Agent engine." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/opa/>OPA</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that exposes Istio metrics for ingestion by a Prometheus harvester." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/prometheus/>Prometheus</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that exposes Istio's Role-Based Access Control model." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/rbac/>RBAC</a></li><li><a title="Adapter for a Redis-based quota management system." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/redisquota/>Redis Quota</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that delivers logs and metrics to Google Service Control." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/servicecontrol/>Service Control</a></li><li><a title="Adapter that sends Istio metrics to SignalFx." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/signalfx/>SignalFx</a></li><li><a title="Adapter to deliver logs and metrics to Papertrail and AppOptics backends." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/solarwinds/>SolarWinds</a></li><li><a title="Adapter to deliver logs, metrics, and traces to Stackdriver." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/stackdriver/>Stackdriver</a></li><li><a title="Adapter to deliver metrics to a StatsD backend." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/statsd/>StatsD</a></li><li><a title="Adapter for outputting logs and metrics locally." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/stdio/>Stdio</a></li><li><a title="Adapter to deliver metrics to Wavefront by VMware." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/wavefront/>Wavefront by VMware</a></li></ul></li><li><a title="Default Metrics exported from Istio through Mixer." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/metrics/>Default Metrics</a></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Mixer templates are used to send data to individual adapters." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/>Templates</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="The Analytics template is used to dispatch runtime telemetry to Apigee." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/analytics/>Analytics</a></li><li><a title="A template that represents a single API key." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/apikey/>API Key</a></li><li><a title="A template used to represent an access control query." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/authorization/>Authorization</a></li><li><a title="A template that carries no data, useful for testing." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/checknothing/>Check Nothing</a></li><li><a title="A template that is used to control the production of Kubernetes-specific attributes." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/kubernetes/>Kubernetes</a></li><li><a title="A template designed to let you perform list checking operations." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/listentry/>List Entry</a></li><li><a title="A template that represents a single runtime log entry." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/logentry/>Log Entry</a></li><li><a title="A template that represents a single runtime metric." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/metric/>Metric</a></li><li><a title="A template that represents a quota allocation request." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/quota/>Quota</a></li><li><a title="A template that carries no data, useful for testing." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/reportnothing/>Report Nothing</a></li><li><a title="A template used by the Google Service Control adapter." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/servicecontrolreport/>Service Control Report</a></li><li><a title="A template that represents\ an individual span within a distributed trace." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/tracespan/>Trace Span</a></li></ul></li><li><a title="Describes the rules used to configure Mixer's policy and telemetry features." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/istio.policy.v1beta1/>Rules</a></li></ul></li><li><a title="Authentication policy for Istio services." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.authentication.v1alpha1/>Authentication Policy</a></li><li><a title="Configuration affecting traffic routing." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/>Traffic Routing</a></li></ul></li><li class=sublist><label class=tree-toggle><i class="fa fa-lg fa-caret-right"></i><a title="Describes usage and options of the Istio commands and utilities." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/>Commands</a></label><ul class="tree collapse"><li><a title="Galley provides configuration management services for Istio." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/galley/>galley</a></li><li><a title="Istio Certificate Authority (CA)." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/istio_ca/>istio_ca</a></li><li><a title="Istio control interface." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/>istioctl</a></li><li><a title="Utility to trigger direct calls to Mixer's API." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/mixc/>mixc</a></li><li><a title="Mixer is Istio's abstraction on top of infrastructure backends." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/mixs/>mixs</a></li><li><a title="Istio security per-node agent." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/node_agent/>node_agent</a></li><li><a title="Istio Pilot agent." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/pilot-agent/>pilot-agent</a></li><li><a title="Istio Pilot." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/pilot-discovery/>pilot-discovery</a></li><li><a title="Kubernetes webhook for automatic Istio sidecar injection." href=/v1.0/docs/reference/commands/sidecar-injector/>sidecar-injector</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div></div></nav></div><div class="col-12 col-md-9 col-xl-8"><p class=d-md-none><label class=sidebar-toggler data-toggle=offcanvas><i class="fa fa-sign-out-alt"></i></label></p><main aria-labelledby=title><div class=pagenav><p><a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/ title="Learn about the different parts of the Istio system and the abstractions it uses."><i style=transform:scaleX(-1) class="fa fa-level-up-alt"></i>&nbsp;Concepts</a></p></div><h1 id=title>Traffic Management</h1><nav class="toc-inlined d-xl-none d-print-none"><hr><div class=directory role=directory><nav id=InlinedTableOfContents><ul><li><a href=#pilot-and-envoy>Pilot and Envoy</a></li><li><a href=#request-routing>Request routing</a></li><ul><li><a href=#communication-between-services>Communication between services</a></li><li><a href=#ingress-and-egress>Ingress and egress</a></li></ul><li><a href=#discovery-and-load-balancing>Discovery and load balancing</a></li><li><a href=#handling-failures>Handling failures</a></li><ul><li><a href=#fine-tuning>Fine tuning</a></li><li><a href=#failure-handling-faq>Failure handling FAQ</a></li></ul><li><a href=#fault-injection>Fault injection</a></li><li><a href=#rule-configuration>Rule configuration</a></li><ul><li><a href=#virtual-services>Virtual Services</a></li><ul><li><a href=#rule-destinations>Rule destinations</a></li><li><a href=#splitting-traffic-between-versions>Splitting traffic between versions</a></li><li><a href=#timeouts-and-retries>Timeouts and retries</a></li><li><a href=#injecting-faults>Injecting faults</a></li><li><a href=#conditional-rules>Conditional rules</a></li><li><a href=#multiple-match-conditions>Multiple match conditions</a></li><li><a href=#precedence>Precedence</a></li></ul><li><a href=#destination-rules>Destination rules</a></li><ul><li><a href=#circuit-breakers>Circuit breakers</a></li><li><a href=#rule-evaluation>Rule evaluation</a></li></ul><li><a href=#service-entries>Service entries</a></li><li><a href=#gateways>Gateways</a></li></ul><li><a href=#see-also>See also</a></li></ul></nav></div><hr></nav><p>This page provides an overview of how traffic management works
in Istio, including the benefits of its traffic management
principles. It assumes that you've already read <a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/>What is Istio?</a>
and are familiar with Istio's high-level architecture.</p><p>Using Istio's traffic management model essentially decouples traffic flow
and infrastructure scaling, letting you specify via Pilot what
rules they want traffic to follow rather than which specific pods/VMs should
receive traffic - Pilot and intelligent Envoy proxies look after the
rest. For example, you can specify via Pilot that you want 5%
of traffic for a particular service to go to a canary version irrespective
of the size of the canary deployment, or send traffic to a particular version
depending on the content of the request.</p><figure style=width:85%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:75%><a class=not-for-endnotes href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./TrafficManagementOverview.svg><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./TrafficManagementOverview.svg alt="Traffic Management with Istio" title="Traffic Management with Istio"></a></div><figcaption>Traffic Management with Istio</figcaption></figure><p>Decoupling traffic flow from infrastructure scaling allows Istio
to provide a variety of traffic management features that live outside the
application code. As well as dynamic <a href=#request-routing>request routing</a>
for A/B testing, gradual rollouts, and canary releases, it also handles
<a href=#handling-failures>failure recovery</a> using timeouts, retries,
circuit breakers, and <a href=#fault-injection>fault injection</a> to
test the compatibility of failure recovery policies across services. These
capabilities are all realized through the Envoy sidecars/proxies deployed
across the service mesh.</p><h2 id=pilot-and-envoy>Pilot and Envoy</h2><p>The core component used for traffic management in Istio is <strong>Pilot</strong>, which
manages and configures all the Envoy
proxy instances deployed in a particular Istio service mesh. Pilot lets you
specify which rules you want to use to route traffic between Envoy proxies
and configure failure recovery features such as timeouts, retries, and
circuit breakers. It also maintains a canonical model of all the services
in the mesh and uses this model to let Envoy instances know about the other Envoy instances in the mesh via its discovery service.</p><p>Each Envoy instance maintains <a href=#discovery-and-load-balancing>load balancing information</a>
based on the information it gets from Pilot and periodic health-checks
of other instances in its load-balancing pool, allowing it to intelligently
distribute traffic between destination instances while following its specified
routing rules.</p><p>Pilot is responsible for the lifecycle of Envoy instances deployed
across the Istio service mesh.</p><figure style=width:60%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:70%><a class=not-for-endnotes href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./PilotAdapters.svg><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./PilotAdapters.svg alt="Pilot Architecture" title="Pilot Architecture"></a></div><figcaption>Pilot Architecture</figcaption></figure><p>As shown in the figure above, Pilot maintains a canonical
representation of services in the mesh that is independent of the underlying
platform. Platform-specific adapters in Pilot are responsible for
populating this canonical model appropriately. For example, the Kubernetes
adapter in Pilot implements the necessary controllers to watch the
Kubernetes API server for changes to the pod registration information, ingress
resources, and third-party resources that store traffic management rules.
This data is translated into the canonical representation. An Envoy-specific configuration is then generated based on the canonical representation.</p><p>Pilot enables <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v1/cluster_manager/sds>service discovery</a>,
dynamic updates to <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/cluster_manager/cds>load balancing pools</a>
and <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/http_conn_man/rds>routing tables</a>.</p><p>You can specify high-level traffic management rules through
<a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/>Pilot's Rule configuration</a>. These rules are translated into low-level
configurations and distributed to Envoy instances.</p><h2 id=request-routing>Request routing</h2><p>As described above, the canonical representation
of services in a mesh is maintained by Pilot. The Istio
model of a service is independent of how it is represented in the underlying
platform (Kubernetes, Mesos, Cloud Foundry,
etc.). Platform-specific adapters are responsible for populating the
internal model representation with various fields from the metadata found
in the platform.</p><p>Istio introduces the concept of a <em>service version</em>, which is a finer-grained
way to subdivide service instances by versions (<code>v1</code>, <code>v2</code>) or environment
(<code>staging</code>, <code>prod</code>). These variants are not necessarily different API
versions: they could be iterative changes to the same service, deployed in
different environments (prod, staging, dev, etc.). Common scenarios where
this is used include A/B testing or canary rollouts. Istio's <a href=#rule-configuration>traffic
routing rules</a> can refer to service versions to provide
additional control over traffic between services.</p><h3 id=communication-between-services>Communication between services</h3><figure style=width:60%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:100%><a class=not-for-endnotes href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./ServiceModel_Versions.svg><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./ServiceModel_Versions.svg alt="Showing how service versions are handled." title="Service Versions"></a></div><figcaption>Service Versions</figcaption></figure><p>As shown in the figure above, clients of a service have no knowledge
of different versions of the service. They can continue to access the
services using the hostname/IP address of the service. The Envoy sidecar/proxy
intercepts and forwards all requests/responses between the client and the
service.</p><p>Envoy determines its actual choice of service version dynamically
based on the routing rules that you specify by using Pilot. This
model enables the application code to decouple itself from the evolution of its dependent
services, while providing other benefits as well (see
<a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/policies-and-telemetry/>Mixer</a>). Routing
rules allow Envoy to select a version based
on conditions such as headers, tags associated with
source/destination, and/or by weights assigned to each version.</p><p>Istio also provides load balancing for traffic to multiple instances of
the same service version. See <a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#discovery-and-load-balancing>Discovery
and Load Balancing</a> for more.</p><p>Istio does not provide a DNS. Applications can try to resolve the
FQDN using the DNS service present in the underlying platform (<code>kube-dns</code>,
<code>mesos-dns</code>, etc.).</p><h3 id=ingress-and-egress>Ingress and egress</h3><p>Istio assumes that all traffic entering and leaving the service mesh
transits through Envoy proxies. By deploying an Envoy proxy in front of
services, you can conduct A/B testing, deploy canary services,
etc. for user-facing services. Similarly, by routing traffic to external
web services (for instance, accessing a maps API or a video service API)
via the Envoy sidecar, you can add failure recovery features such as
timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers and obtain detailed metrics on
the connections to these services.</p><figure style=width:85%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:35.51%><a class=not-for-endnotes href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./ServiceModel_RequestFlow.svg><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./ServiceModel_RequestFlow.svg alt="Ingress and Egress through Envoy." title="Request Flow"></a></div><figcaption>Request Flow</figcaption></figure><h2 id=discovery-and-load-balancing>Discovery and load balancing</h2><p>Istio load balances traffic across instances of a service in a service mesh.</p><p>Istio assumes the presence of a service registry
to keep track of the pods/VMs of a service in the application. It also
assumes that new instances of a service are automatically registered with
the service registry and unhealthy instances are automatically removed.
Platforms such as Kubernetes and Mesos already provide such functionality for
container-based applications, and many solutions exist for VM-based
applications.</p><p>Pilot consumes information from the service
registry and provides a platform-independent service discovery
interface. Envoy instances in the mesh perform service discovery and
dynamically update their load balancing pools accordingly.</p><figure style=width:55%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:80%><a class=not-for-endnotes href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./LoadBalancing.svg><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management/./LoadBalancing.svg alt="Discovery and Load Balancing" title="Discovery and Load Balancing"></a></div><figcaption>Discovery and Load Balancing</figcaption></figure><p>As shown in the figure above, services in the mesh access each other
using their DNS names. All HTTP traffic bound to a service is automatically
re-routed through Envoy. Envoy distributes the traffic across instances in
the load balancing pool. While Envoy supports several
<a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overview/load_balancing>sophisticated load balancing algorithms</a>,
Istio currently allows three load balancing modes:
round robin, random, and weighted least request.</p><p>In addition to load balancing, Envoy periodically checks the health of each
instance in the pool. Envoy follows a circuit breaker pattern to
classify instances as unhealthy or healthy based on their failure rates for
the health check API call. In other words, when the number of health
check failures for a given instance exceeds a pre-specified threshold, it
will be ejected from the load balancing pool. Similarly, when the number of
health checks that pass exceed a pre-specified threshold, the instance will
be added back into the load balancing pool. You can find out more about Envoy's
failure-handling features in <a href=#handling-failures>Handling Failures</a>.</p><p>Services can actively shed load by responding with an HTTP 503 to a health
check. In such an event, the service instance will be immediately removed
from the caller's load balancing pool.</p><h2 id=handling-failures>Handling failures</h2><p>Envoy provides a set of out-of-the-box <em>opt-in</em> failure recovery features
that can be taken advantage of by the services in an application. Features
include:</p><ol><li><p>Timeouts</p></li><li><p>Bounded retries with timeout budgets and variable jitter between retries</p></li><li><p>Limits on number of concurrent connections and requests to upstream services</p></li><li><p>Active (periodic) health checks on each member of the load balancing pool</p></li><li><p>Fine-grained circuit breakers (passive health checks) &ndash; applied per
instance in the load balancing pool</p></li></ol><p>These features can be dynamically configured at runtime through
<a href=#rule-configuration>Istio's traffic management rules</a>.</p><p>The jitter between retries minimizes the impact of retries on an overloaded
upstream service, while timeout budgets ensure that the calling service
gets a response (success/failure) within a predictable time frame.</p><p>A combination of active and passive health checks (4 and 5 above)
minimize the chances of accessing an unhealthy instance in the load
balancing pool. When combined with platform-level health checks (such as
those supported by Kubernetes or Mesos), applications can ensure that
unhealthy pods/containers/VMs can be quickly ejected from the service
mesh, minimizing the request failures and impact on latency.</p><p>Together, these features enable the service mesh to tolerate failing nodes
and prevent localized failures from cascading instability to other nodes.</p><h3 id=fine-tuning>Fine tuning</h3><p>Istio's traffic management rules allow you to set defaults for failure recovery per
service and version that apply to all callers. However, consumers of a service can also
override <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#HTTPRoute-timeout>timeout</a>
and <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#HTTPRoute-retries>retry</a>
defaults by providing request-level overrides through special HTTP headers.
With the Envoy proxy implementation, the headers are <code>x-envoy-upstream-rq-timeout-ms</code> and
<code>x-envoy-max-retries</code>, respectively.</p><h3 id=failure-handling-faq>Failure handling FAQ</h3><p>Q: <em>Do applications still handle failures when running in Istio?</em></p><p>Yes. Istio improves the reliability and availability of services in the
mesh. However, <strong>applications need to handle the failure (errors)
and take appropriate fallback actions</strong>. For example, when all instances in
a load balancing pool have failed, Envoy will return HTTP 503. It is the
responsibility of the application to implement any fallback logic that is
needed to handle the HTTP 503 error code from an upstream service.</p><p>Q: <em>Will Envoy's failure recovery features break applications that already
use fault tolerance libraries (for example <a href=https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix>Hystrix</a>)?</em></p><p>No. Envoy is completely transparent to the application. A failure response
returned by Envoy would not be distinguishable from a failure response
returned by the upstream service to which the call was made.</p><p>Q: <em>How will failures be handled when using application-level libraries and
Envoy at the same time?</em></p><p>Given two failure recovery policies for the same destination service, <strong>the
more restrictive of the two will be triggered when failures occur</strong>. For example, you have two timeouts &ndash; one set in Envoy and another in an application's library. In this
example, if the application sets a 5 second timeout for an API call to a
service, while you configured a 10 second timeout in Envoy, the
application's timeout will kick in first. Similarly, if Envoy's circuit
breaker triggers before the application's circuit breaker, API calls to the
service will get a 503 from Envoy.</p><h2 id=fault-injection>Fault injection</h2><p>While the Envoy sidecar/proxy provides a host of
<a href=#handling-failures>failure recovery mechanisms</a> to services running
on Istio, it is still
imperative to test the end-to-end failure recovery capability of the
application as a whole. Misconfigured failure recovery policies (for example,
incompatible/restrictive timeouts across service calls) could result in
continued unavailability of critical services in the application, resulting
in poor user experience.</p><p>Istio enables protocol-specific fault injection into the network, instead
of killing pods or delaying or corrupting packets at the TCP layer. The rationale
is that the failures observed by the application layer are the same
regardless of network level failures, and that more meaningful failures can
be injected at the application layer (for example, HTTP error codes) to exercise the resilience of an application.</p><p>You can configure faults to be injected into requests that match
specific conditions. You can further restrict the percentage of
requests that should be subjected to faults. Two types of faults can be
injected: delays and aborts. Delays are timing failures, mimicking
increased network latency, or an overloaded upstream service. Aborts are
crash failures that mimic failures in upstream services. Aborts usually
manifest in the form of HTTP error codes or TCP connection failures.</p><h2 id=rule-configuration>Rule configuration</h2><p>Istio provides a simple configuration model to
control how API calls and layer-4 traffic flow across various
services in an application deployment. The configuration model allows you to
configure service-level properties such as circuit breakers, timeouts,
and retries, as well as set up common continuous deployment tasks such as
canary rollouts, A/B testing, staged rollouts with %-based traffic splits,
etc.</p><p>There are four traffic management configuration resources in Istio:
<code>VirtualService</code>, <code>DestinationRule</code>, <code>ServiceEntry</code>, and <code>Gateway</code>:</p><ul><li><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#VirtualService><code>VirtualService</code></a>
defines the rules that control how requests for a service are routed within an Istio service mesh.</p></li><li><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#DestinationRule><code>DestinationRule</code></a>
configures the set of policies to be applied to a request after <code>VirtualService</code> routing has occurred.</p></li><li><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#ServiceEntry><code>ServiceEntry</code></a> is commonly used to enable requests to services outside of an Istio service mesh.</p></li><li><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#Gateway><code>Gateway</code></a>
configures a load balancer for HTTP/TCP traffic, most commonly operating at the edge of the mesh to enable ingress traffic for an application.</p></li></ul><p>For example, you can implement a simple rule to send 100% of incoming traffic for a <em>reviews</em> service to version &ldquo;v1&rdquo; by using a <code>VirtualService</code> configuration as follows:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
hosts:
- reviews
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v1</code></pre><p>This configuration says that traffic sent to the <em>reviews</em> service
(specified in the <code>hosts</code> field) should be routed to the v1 subset
of the underlying <em>reviews</em> service instances. The route <code>subset</code> specifies the name of a defined subset in a corresponding destination rule configuration.</p><p>A subset specifies one or more labels that identify version-specific instances.
For example, in a Kubernetes deployment of Istio, &ldquo;version: v1&rdquo; indicates that
only pods containing the label &ldquo;version: v1&rdquo; will receive traffic.</p><p>In a <code>DestinationRule</code>, you can then add additional policies. For example, the following definition specifies to use the random load balancing mode:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
host: reviews
trafficPolicy:
loadBalancer:
simple: RANDOM
subsets:
- name: v1
labels:
version: v1
- name: v2
labels:
version: v2</code></pre><p>Rules can be configured using the <code>kubectl</code> command. See the
<a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-routing/>configuring request routing
task</a> for examples.</p><p>The following sections provide a basic overview of the traffic management configuration resources.
See <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/>networking reference</a>
for detailed information.</p><h3 id=virtual-services>Virtual Services</h3><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#VirtualService><code>VirtualService</code></a>
defines the rules that control how requests for a service are routed within an Istio service mesh.
For example, a virtual service could route requests to different versions of a service or to a completely different service than was requested.
Requests can be routed based on the request source and destination, HTTP paths and
header fields, and weights associated with individual service versions.</p><h4 id=rule-destinations>Rule destinations</h4><p>Routing rules correspond to one or more request destination hosts that are specified in
a <code>VirtualService</code> configuration. These hosts may or may not be the same as the actual
destination workload and may not even correspond to an actual routable service in the mesh.
For example, to define routing rules for requests to the <em>reviews</em> service using its internal
mesh name <code>reviews</code> or via host <code>bookinfo.com</code>, a <code>VirtualService</code> could set the <code>hosts</code> field as:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>hosts:
- reviews
- bookinfo.com</code></pre><p>The <code>hosts</code> field specifies, implicitly or explicitly, one or more fully qualified
domain names (FQDN). The short name <code>reviews</code>, above, would implicitly
expand to an implementation specific FQDN. For example, in a Kubernetes environment
the full name is derived from the cluster and namespace of the <code>VirtualSevice</code>
(for example, <code>reviews.default.svc.cluster.local</code>).</p><h4 id=splitting-traffic-between-versions>Splitting traffic between versions</h4><p>Each route rule identifies one or more weighted backends to call when the rule is activated.
Each backend corresponds to a specific version of the destination service,
where versions can be expressed using <em>labels</em>.
If there are multiple registered instances with the specified label(s),
they will be routed to based on the load balancing policy configured for the service,
or round-robin by default.</p><p>For example, the following rule will route 25% of traffic for the <em>reviews</em> service to instances with
the &ldquo;v2&rdquo; label and the remaining 75% of traffic to &ldquo;v1&rdquo;:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
hosts:
- reviews
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v1
weight: 75
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v2
weight: 25</code></pre><h4 id=timeouts-and-retries>Timeouts and retries</h4><p>By default, the timeout for HTTP requests is 15 seconds,
but it can be overridden in a route rule as follows:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: ratings
subset: v1
timeout: 10s</code></pre><p>You can also specify the number of retry attempts for an HTTP request in a route rule.
The maximum number of retry attempts, or the number of attempts possible within the default or overridden timeout period, can be set as follows:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: ratings
subset: v1
retries:
attempts: 3
perTryTimeout: 2s</code></pre><p>Note that request timeouts and retries can also be
<a href=#fine-tuning>overridden on a per-request basis</a>.</p><p>See the <a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-timeouts>request timeouts task</a> for an example of timeout control.</p><h4 id=injecting-faults>Injecting faults</h4><p>A route rule can specify one or more faults to inject
while forwarding HTTP requests to the rule's corresponding request destination.
The faults can be either delays or aborts.</p><p>The following example introduces a 5 second delay in 10% of the requests to the &ldquo;v1&rdquo; version of the <em>ratings</em> microservice:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- fault:
delay:
percent: 10
fixedDelay: 5s
route:
- destination:
host: ratings
subset: v1</code></pre><p>You can use the other kind of fault, an abort, to prematurely terminate a request. For example, to simulate a failure.</p><p>The following example returns an HTTP 400 error code for 10%
of the requests to the <em>ratings</em> service &ldquo;v1&rdquo;:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- fault:
abort:
percent: 10
httpStatus: 400
route:
- destination:
host: ratings
subset: v1</code></pre><p>Sometimes delay and abort faults are used together. For example, the following rule delays by 5 seconds all requests from the <em>reviews</em> service &ldquo;v2&rdquo; to the <em>ratings</em> service &ldquo;v1&rdquo; and then aborts 10% of them:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- match:
- sourceLabels:
app: reviews
version: v2
fault:
delay:
fixedDelay: 5s
abort:
percent: 10
httpStatus: 400
route:
- destination:
host: ratings
subset: v1</code></pre><p>To see fault injection in action, see the <a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/fault-injection/>fault injection task</a>.</p><h4 id=conditional-rules>Conditional rules</h4><p>Rules can optionally be qualified to only apply to requests that match some
specific condition such as the following:</p><p><em>1. Restrict to specific client workloads using workload labels</em>. For example, a rule
can indicate that it only applies to calls from workloads (pods) implementing
the <em>reviews</em> service:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- match:
sourceLabels:
app: reviews
...</code></pre><p>The value of <code>sourceLabels</code> depends on the implementation of the service.
In Kubernetes, for example, it would probably be the same labels that are used
in the pod selector of the corresponding Kubernetes service.</p><p>The above example can also be further refined to only apply to calls from version &ldquo;v2&rdquo;
of the <em>reviews</em> service:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- match:
- sourceLabels:
app: reviews
version: v2
...</code></pre><p><em>2. Select rule based on HTTP headers</em>. For example, the following rule only applies to an incoming request if it includes a custom &ldquo;end-user&rdquo; header that
contains the string &ldquo;jason&rdquo;:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
hosts:
- reviews
http:
- match:
- headers:
end-user:
exact: jason
...</code></pre><p>If more than one header is specified in the rule, then all of the
corresponding headers must match for the rule to apply.</p><p><em>3. Select rule based on request URI</em>. For example, the following rule only applies to a request if the URI path starts with <code>/api/v1</code>:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: productpage
spec:
hosts:
- productpage
http:
- match:
- uri:
prefix: /api/v1
...</code></pre><h4 id=multiple-match-conditions>Multiple match conditions</h4><p>Multiple match conditions can be set simultaneously. In such a case, AND or OR
semantics apply, depending on the nesting.</p><p>If multiple conditions are nested in a single match clause, then the conditions
are ANDed. For example, the following rule only applies if the
client workload is &ldquo;reviews:v2&rdquo; AND the custom &ldquo;end-user&rdquo; header containing
&ldquo;jason&rdquo; is present in the request:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- match:
- sourceLabels:
app: reviews
version: v2
headers:
end-user:
exact: jason
...</code></pre><p>If instead, the condition appear in separate match clauses, then only one
of the conditions applies (OR semantics):</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: ratings
spec:
hosts:
- ratings
http:
- match:
- sourceLabels:
app: reviews
version: v2
- headers:
end-user:
exact: jason
...</code></pre><p>This rule applies if either the client workload is &ldquo;reviews:v2&rdquo; OR
the custom &ldquo;end-user&rdquo; header containing &ldquo;jason&rdquo; is present in the request.</p><h4 id=precedence>Precedence</h4><p>When there are multiple rules for a given destination,
they are evaluated in the order they appear
in the <code>VirtualService</code>, meaning the first rule
in the list has the highest priority.</p><p><strong>Why is priority important?</strong> Whenever the routing story for a particular
service is purely weight based, it can be specified in a single rule.
On the other hand, when other conditions
(such as requests from a specific user) are being used to route traffic, more
than one rule will be needed to specify the routing. This is where the
rule priority must be carefully considered to make sure that the rules are
evaluated in the right order.</p><p>A common pattern for generalized route specification is to provide one or
more higher priority rules that match various conditions,
and then provide a single weight-based rule with no match
condition last to provide the weighted distribution of
traffic for all other cases.</p><p>For example, the following <code>VirtualService</code> contains two rules that, together,
specify that all requests for the <em>reviews</em> service that includes a header
named &ldquo;Foo&rdquo; with the value &ldquo;bar&rdquo; will be sent to the &ldquo;v2&rdquo; instances.
All remaining requests will be sent to &ldquo;v1&rdquo;:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
hosts:
- reviews
http:
- match:
- headers:
Foo:
exact: bar
route:
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v2
- route:
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v1</code></pre><p>Notice that the header-based rule has the higher priority. If
it was lower, these rules wouldn't work as expected because the weight-based
rule, with no specific match condition, would be evaluated first to route all traffic to &ldquo;v1&rdquo;, even requests that include the
matching &ldquo;Foo&rdquo; header. Once a rule is found that applies to the incoming
request, it is executed and the rule-evaluation process terminates. That's why it's very important to carefully consider the
priorities of each rule when there is more than one.</p><h3 id=destination-rules>Destination rules</h3><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#DestinationRule><code>DestinationRule</code></a>
configures the set of policies to be applied to a request after <code>VirtualService</code> routing has occurred. They are
intended to be authored by service owners, describing the circuit breakers, load balancer settings, TLS settings, and other settings.</p><p>A <code>DestinationRule</code> also defines addressable <code>subsets</code>, meaning named versions, of the corresponding destination host.
These subsets are used in <code>VirtualService</code> route specifications when sending traffic to specific versions of the service.</p><p>The following <code>DestinationRule</code> configures policies and subsets for the reviews service:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
host: reviews
trafficPolicy:
loadBalancer:
simple: RANDOM
subsets:
- name: v1
labels:
version: v1
- name: v2
labels:
version: v2
trafficPolicy:
loadBalancer:
simple: ROUND_ROBIN
- name: v3
labels:
version: v3</code></pre><p>Notice that multiple policies, default and v2-specific in this example, can be
specified in a single <code>DestinationRule</code> configuration.</p><h4 id=circuit-breakers>Circuit breakers</h4><p>A simple circuit breaker can be set based on a number of conditions such as connection and request limits.</p><p>For example, the following <code>DestinationRule</code>
sets a limit of 100 connections to <em>reviews</em> service version &ldquo;v1&rdquo; backends:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
host: reviews
subsets:
- name: v1
labels:
version: v1
trafficPolicy:
connectionPool:
tcp:
maxConnections: 100</code></pre><p>See the <a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/circuit-breaking/>circuit-breaking task</a> for a demonstration of circuit breaker control.</p><h4 id=rule-evaluation>Rule evaluation</h4><p>Similar to route rules, policies defined in a <code>DestinationRule</code> are associated with a particular <em>host</em>. However if they are subset specific,
activation depends on route rule evaluation results.</p><p>The first step in the rule evaluation process evaluates the route rules in
the <code>VirtualService</code> corresponding to the requested <em>host</em>, if there are any,
to determine the subset (meaning specific
version) of the destination service that the current request will be routed
to. Next, the set of policies corresponding to the selected subset, if any,
are evaluated to determine if they apply.</p><p><strong>NOTE:</strong> One subtlety of the algorithm to keep in mind is that policies
that are defined for specific subsets will only be applied if
the corresponding subset is explicitly routed to. For example,
consider the following configuration as the one and only rule defined for the
<em>reviews</em> service, meaning there are no route rules in the corresponding <code>VirtualService</code> definition:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
host: reviews
subsets:
- name: v1
labels:
version: v1
trafficPolicy:
connectionPool:
tcp:
maxConnections: 100</code></pre><p>Since there is no specific route rule defined for the <em>reviews</em>
service, default round-robin routing behavior will apply, which will
presumably call &ldquo;v1&rdquo; instances on occasion, maybe even always if &ldquo;v1&rdquo; is
the only running version. Nevertheless, the above policy will never be
invoked since the default routing is done at a lower level. The rule
evaluation engine will be unaware of the final destination and therefore
unable to match the subset policy to the request.</p><p>You can fix the above example in one of two ways. You can either move the
traffic policy up a level in the <code>DestinationRule</code> to make it apply to any version:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
host: reviews
trafficPolicy:
connectionPool:
tcp:
maxConnections: 100
subsets:
- name: v1
labels:
version: v1</code></pre><p>Or, better yet, define proper route rules for the service in the <code>VirtualService</code> definition.
For example, add a simple route rule for &ldquo;reviews:v1&rdquo;:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: reviews
spec:
hosts:
- reviews
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: reviews
subset: v1</code></pre><p>Although the default Istio behavior conveniently sends traffic from any
source to all versions of a destination service
without any rules being set, as soon as version discrimination is desired
rules are going to be needed.
Therefore, setting a default rule for every service, right from the
start, is generally considered a best practice in Istio.</p><h3 id=service-entries>Service entries</h3><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#ServiceEntry><code>ServiceEntry</code></a>
is used to add additional entries into the service registry that Istio maintains internally.
It is most commonly used to enable requests to services outside of an Istio service mesh.
For example, the following <code>ServiceEntry</code> can be used to allow external calls to services hosted
under the <code>*.foo.com</code> domain:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
name: foo-ext-svc
spec:
hosts:
- *.foo.com
ports:
- number: 80
name: http
protocol: HTTP
- number: 443
name: https
protocol: HTTPS</code></pre><p>The destination of a <code>ServiceEntry</code> is specified using the <code>hosts</code> field, which
can be either a fully qualified or wildcard domain name.
It represents a white listed set of one or more services that services
in the mesh are allowed to access.</p><p>A <code>ServiceEntry</code> is not limited to external service configuration. It can be of two types: mesh-internal or mesh-external.
Mesh-internal entries are like all other internal services but are used to explicitly add services
to the mesh. They can be used to add services as part of expanding the service mesh to include unmanaged infrastructure
(for example, VMs added to a Kubernetes-based service mesh).
Mesh-external entries represent services external to the mesh.
For them, mutual TLS authentication is disabled and policy enforcement is performed on the client-side,
instead of on the server-side as it is for internal service requests.</p><p>Service entries work well in conjunction with virtual services
and destination rules as long as they refer to the services using matching
<code>hosts</code>. For example, the following rule can be used in conjunction with
the above <code>ServiceEntry</code> rule to set a 10s timeout for calls to
the external service at <code>bar.foo.com</code>:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: bar-foo-ext-svc
spec:
hosts:
- bar.foo.com
http:
- route:
- destination:
host: bar.foo.com
timeout: 10s</code></pre><p>Rules to redirect and forward traffic, to define retry,
timeout, and fault injection policies are all supported for external destinations.
Weighted (version-based) routing is not possible, however, since there is no notion
of multiple versions of an external service.</p><p>See the <a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/>egress task</a> for a more
about accessing external services.</p><h3 id=gateways>Gateways</h3><p>A <a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#Gateway>Gateway</a>
configures a load balancer for HTTP/TCP traffic, most commonly operating at the edge of the
mesh to enable ingress traffic for an application.</p><p>Unlike Kubernetes Ingress, Istio <code>Gateway</code> only configures the L4-L6 functions
(for example, ports to expose, TLS configuration). Users can then use standard Istio rules
to control HTTP requests as well as TCP traffic entering a <code>Gateway</code> by binding a
<code>VirtualService</code> to it.</p><p>For example, the following simple <code>Gateway</code> configures a load balancer
to allow external HTTPS traffic for host <code>bookinfo.com</code> into the mesh:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: Gateway
metadata:
name: bookinfo-gateway
spec:
servers:
- port:
number: 443
name: https
protocol: HTTPS
hosts:
- bookinfo.com
tls:
mode: SIMPLE
serverCertificate: /tmp/tls.crt
privateKey: /tmp/tls.key</code></pre><p>To configure the corresponding routes, you must define a <code>VirtualService</code>
for the same host and bound to the <code>Gateway</code> using
the <code>gateways</code> field in the configuration:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
name: bookinfo
spec:
hosts:
- bookinfo.com
gateways:
- bookinfo-gateway # &lt;---- bind to gateway
http:
- match:
- uri:
prefix: /reviews
route:
...</code></pre><p>See the <a href=/v1.0/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/>ingress task</a> for a
complete ingress gateway example.</p><p>Although primarily used to manage ingress traffic, a <code>Gateway</code> can also be used to model
a purely internal or egress proxy. Irrespective of the location, all gateways
can be configured and controlled in the same way. See
<a href=/v1.0/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#Gateway>gateway reference</a>
for details.</p><h2 id=see-also>See also</h2><div class=see-also><div class=container-fluid><div class=row><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2019/custom-ingress-gateway/>Deploy a custom ingress gateway using cert-manager</a></p><p class=desc>Describes how to deploy a custom ingress gateway using cert-manager manually.</p></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2018/incremental-traffic-management/>Incremental Istio Part 1, Traffic Management</a></p><p class=desc>How to use Istio for traffic management without deploying sidecar proxies.</p></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2018/v1alpha3-routing/>Introducing the Istio v1alpha3 routing API</a></p><p class=desc>Introduction, motivation and design principles for the Istio v1alpha3 routing API.</p></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2018/aws-nlb/>Configuring Istio Ingress with AWS NLB</a></p><p class=desc>Describes how to configure Istio ingress with a network load balancer on AWS.</p></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2018/traffic-mirroring/>Traffic Mirroring with Istio for Testing in Production</a></p><p class=desc>An introduction to safer, lower-risk deployments and release to production.</p></div><div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-xl-4"><p class=link><a href=/v1.0/blog/2018/egress-tcp/>Consuming External TCP Services</a></p><p class=desc>Describes a simple scenario based on Istio's Bookinfo example.</p></div></div></div></div></main><div class="container-fluid d-print-none"><br><div class=row><div class="col-6 pagenav"><p><a title="Introduces Istio, the problems it solves, its high-level architecture and design goals." href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/><i class="fa fa-long-arrow-alt-left"></i>What is Istio?</a></p></div><div class="col-6 pagenav" style=text-align:right><p><a title="Describes Istio's authorization and authentication functionality." href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/security/>Security
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