May 17 · 11 min read · If you are in the DevOps world, especially the Kubernetes world chances are you have heard a lot of buzz around Kubernetes networking tools. And recently, with the announcement around NGINX Ingress de
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Feb 17 · 1 min read · Istio End-to-End Flow Summary Client → AWS ALB → Istio Ingress Gateway → Virtual Service →DestinationRule -> Service -> Pod User → DNS resolves to AWS ALB.ALB (Ingress) → forwards to Istio ingressgateway Service.Istio Gateway → matches host/port.Virt...
Join discussionSep 9, 2025 · 3 min read · Why service meshes emerged Cloud applications started small and monolithic, managed in teams, but as complexity grew, microservices spread out across the infrastructure. This shift brought challenges: service discovery, resiliency, disaster recovery,...
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Sep 4, 2025 · 12 min read · This article will walk readers through how Istio Gateway can be used to expose internal microservices inside a Kubernetes cluster. Using two simple Python apps (Weather API and Advisor API), it demonstrates how to: Install and configure Istio with T...
Join discussionApr 27, 2025 · 9 min read · What is Istio? Istio is like a “traffic controller” for your app’s services when they talk to each other over the network. Instead of you writing code to manage security, balancing loads, and monitoring traffic between services, Istio handles it for ...
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Apr 6, 2025 · 4 min read · Problem: Fat Microservices: In a typical microservices architecture, each service should ideally focus on a single responsibility. However, in practice, we often encounter "fat microservices"—services that take on more than just their core business l...
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Mar 21, 2025 · 4 min read · Introduction In modern cloud-native architectures, microservices communicate extensively over the network. However, this communication introduces challenges such as service discovery, load balancing, security, observability, and traffic management. A...
Join discussionMar 17, 2025 · 2 min read · Introduction Istio provides powerful traffic management capabilities that enable fine-grained control over service-to-service communication within a Kubernetes cluster. With Istio, you can perform routing, load balancing, and traffic shifting without...
Join discussionJan 14, 2025 · 17 min read · Introduction In the last blog, we built a Wasm plugin for the Envoy proxy to observe API calls passively. This time, we’ll extend the Istio sidecar-based service mesh using that Wasm plugin. So, let’s get started. As usual, this is also a hands-on tu...
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