March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
Pilot is the core traffic management component of Istio's control plane for the Envoy sidecars. It pushes communication-based policies to sidecar proxies at runtime to enforce traffic management configurations for intelligent routing, such as Canary deployments, blue/green testing, and resiliency features such as timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers. These are all topics that we will look at in more detail later in this chapter.
The following diagram shows the Pilot architecture:

As we can see, Pilot maintains an abstract model of all of the services in the mesh that have been discovered through either Kubernetes or external services ...
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