Istio on Kubernetes: Smart Canaries, Dark Launches and Chaos
summary
Deploys Envoy sidecars via Istio CRDs (Pilot, Mixer, Citadel) to intercept pod traffic and add mTLS, Prometheus metrics and Jaeger tracing; uses Envoy sidecar + control plane to push routing rules (virtualservice + destinationrule). Demonstrates 75/25 and 25% canary splits, dark launch where every request is duplicated but only one path returns, and chaos-style fault injection (errors and latency). All demos run on Kubernetes with working observability and rollback.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 3:52DevOps and infrastructure evolution
- 8:48Kubernetes recap and demo
- 21:06Istio service mesh introduction
- 33:03Service mesh benefits and architecture
- 44:25Istio components and control plane
- 48:16Blue-green and canary deployments
- 57:12Dark launches and chaos engineering
- 1:00:00Advanced routing and Q&A
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