Using Istio to Manage the Cross-Regional & Cross-Cluster...

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Shows a concrete deployment: a multi-cluster Istio mesh across Alibaba Cloud regions that maps Kubernetes services by DNS, uses Istio/East‑West routing and Envoy sidecars to route traffic, and implements passive cross-region failover so requests to a downed region redirect to healthy clusters. Describes topology choices, how service-to-service mTLS and traffic policies are applied, and a live demo where API requests fail over from one region to another and continue serving without manual intervention.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:01Why need the multiple regions/clusters? 1. Business Continue/Disaster Recovery 2. Geographically distributed end users
3. 9:30Feature Request for multi-region/cluster
4. 11:39Istio multi-cluster patterns
5. 13:50Simplified Installation and Configuration (2) S
6. 14:06Custom Resource for Istio Operator
7. 18:17How to enable locality aware & failover?
8. 20:13Customer Case Reference - Unicareer
9. 29:47Quick Demo
10. 35:47Benefits from Istio on ACK

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