Traffic management is one of the critical benefits provided by Istio. At the heart of Istio’s traffic management is the ability to decouple traffic flow and infrastructure scaling. This lets you control your traffic in ways that aren’t possible without a service mesh like Istio. For example, let’s say you want to execute a canary deployment. With Istio, you can specify that v1 of a service receives 90% of incoming traffic, while v2 of that service only receives 10%. With standard Kubern...
