How to Use Istio to Inject Faults to Troubleshoot Microservices in Kubernetes
How to Use Istio to Inject Faults to Troubleshoot Microservices in Kubernetes

Improve your microservices running on Kubernetes

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Imagine you’ve deployed the reviews-v2 microservice into production, and you have an issue. Users are complaining they can’t see the reviews in your application intermittently.

You’ve run a thorough investigation in your development environment, but you’re not able to find what the problem is.

The only way to investigate the problem is by looking at the traffic flowing through your production services. Someone from your operations team notice timeouts in the chain, and you need to investigate further.

This story is a follow-up to “Locality-Based Load Balancing in Kubernetes Using Istio.” Today, let’s discuss fault injection and troubleshooting.
['Gaurav Agarwal']
['Technology', 'Programming', 'Kubernetes', 'Microservices', 'DevOps']