Istio, the best friend of your K8S cluster ❤️

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Overview of Istio for Kubernetes clusters: explains how Istio provides traffic-management features like circuit-breaker, retries, timeouts, blue-green deployment, A/B testing and pool-ejection for microservice environments. Compares Netflix-derived tooling with Istio’s built-in capabilities and then examines how Istio works internally and how to extend its model (DIY extensions).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:53What is Istio
3. 7:43Architecture and components
4. 12:13Observability with Istio
5. 15:21Connectivity and routing
6. 17:29Traffic control
7. 24:34Error handling and resilience
8. 28:46Security with Istio
9. 33:21Advanced use cases
10. 36:10Deployment and management
11. 41:28Q&A

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