Manage Istio service mesh traffic
k8s-service-meshskillsetup L4★908
rohitg00/kubectl-mcp-server ↗What it does
Manage Istio service mesh for traffic shifting, mTLS encryption, and traffic policies
Best for
Shifting traffic between service versions (A/B testing) or enabling mutual TLS without modifying application code.
Inputs
- · VirtualService manifest
- · DestinationRule YAML
- · PeerAuthentication policies
Outputs
- · Traffic shifted across services
- · mTLS enabled between services
- · observability metrics
Requires
- · Istio control plane
- · kubectl
Preconditions
- · Istio 1.6+ installed on cluster
- · Kubernetes 1.19+
Failure modes
- · VirtualService routing rules not applied
- · DestinationRule mTLS mode mismatch
- · sidecar injection skipped
- · traffic split weights not summing to 100
Trust signals
- · VirtualService and DestinationRule examples
- · mTLS configuration pattern
- · traffic splitting syntax
- · observability integration