2 posts tagged with "istio"

In a previous article, I demonstrated the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) of Kubernetes. In that article, I set up autoscaling for CPU utilization, but this time I will set the HPA target to the request processing time of the pod in question. Since it is time-consuming to manage metrics values on the application side, I will get the request processing time metrics from the service mesh Istio.

I got a chance to learn to use Istio, one of the most loved service mesh solutions, in a Kubernetes cluster at work. Before all this, I had no idea about what Istio is, or why service mesh is favored, but now I have clear answers to these and can confidently recommend introducing Istio into your Kubernetes cluster. It offers a variety of benefits, and in this article, I would like to share four advantages of Istio that I like most.