The Complete Guide to gRPC Load Balancing in Kubernetes and Istio
Aug 16, 2025 · “Istio’s data plane is composed of a set of intelligent proxies (Envoy) deployed as sidecars. These proxies mediate and control all network communication between microservices.”
Kubernetes Internals: Inside The Mind of A Monster - Substack
A service mesh is an infrastructure layer of it’s own and uses sidecar containers (containers running alongside pod containers) to handle communication between services. Istio injects the …
How to implement the sidecar kill mechanism in Kubernetes jobs
Feb 21, 2024 · This becomes particularly tricky when Istio injection is enabled in a namespace, automatically running istio-proxy sidecar containers. As of now, Kubernetes doesn’t provide a …
Deep Dive: The Art of Rate Limiting – Controlling Traffic ...
Feb 26, 2025 · Istio provides traffic control capabilities, including rate limiting, at the service mesh level. How it Works: Uses Envoy proxies to enforce limits on a per-service basis.
Demystifying Istio Circuit Breaking - by Vikas Kumar
May 12, 2024 · This article was originally written on Medium for OLX Engineering tech blog.
Lesson 7: Pods - The Atomic Unit of Kubernetes
Nov 20, 2025 · This is how Istio deploys Envoy proxies alongside every application container—the pod guarantee ensures the proxy is always present. Trade-off: Pods are larger scheduling …
Becoming a Golden Kubestronaut - by Gerard van Engelen
Feb 24, 2025 · Istio Certified Associate (ICA) GitOps Associate (CGOA) Argo Certified Associate (CAPA) Kyverno Certified Associate (KCA) Linux Foundation Linux Foundation Certified …