Traffic routing — DestinationRule

Apply a DestinationRule to define load balancing and circuit breaker policies

kubectl apply -f destinationrule.yaml
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istio19 commands
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istioservice-meshdestinationrule

More istio commands

  • Enable mTLS (strict)
    kubectl apply -f - <<EOF apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1 kind: PeerAuthentication metadata: name: default namespace: default spec: mtls: mode: STRICT EOF

    Enforce strict mutual TLS for all workloads in namespace

  • Inject sidecar manually
    istioctl kube-inject -f deployment.yaml | kubectl apply -f -

    Manually inject Istio sidecar into a deployment manifest

  • Dashboard (Kiali)
    istioctl dashboard kiali

    Open Kiali service mesh dashboard in browser

  • Dashboard (Jaeger)
    istioctl dashboard jaeger

    Open Jaeger distributed tracing dashboard

  • View access logs
    kubectl logs -l app=myapp -c istio-proxy | head -50

    View Envoy access logs from the sidecar container

all 19 istio commands