Setup Service Mesh
Skill Verified ActiveDeploy and configure a service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) to enable secure service-to-service communication, traffic management, observability, and policy enforcement in Kubernetes clusters. Covers installation, mTLS configuration, traffic routing, circuit breaking, and integration with monitoring tools. Use when microservices need encrypted service-to-service communication, fine-grained traffic control for canary or A/B deployments, observability across all service interactions without application changes, or consistent circuit breaking and retry policies.
To enable secure service-to-service communication, advanced traffic management, and enhanced observability in Kubernetes microservices architectures by deploying and configuring a service mesh.
Features
- Istio and Linkerd installation and configuration
- Automatic sidecar proxy injection
- mTLS policy enforcement
- Traffic routing, splitting, and retries
- Integration with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
- Health check and validation procedures
Use Cases
- When microservices need encrypted service-to-service communication.
- For fine-grained traffic control in canary or A/B deployments.
- To gain observability across all service interactions without application changes.
- To enforce consistent circuit breaking and retry policies.
Non-Goals
- Application-level security configurations beyond infrastructure-level mTLS.
- Detailed monitoring dashboard configuration beyond basic setup.
- Management of Kubernetes clusters themselves (e.g., node provisioning).
Scope
- info:Dry-run previewWhile there isn't a specific '--dry-run' flag for the entire skill, commands like `kubectl apply` and `istioctl install` have preview/dry-run capabilities that could be utilized by a user.
Installation
/plugin install agent-almanac@pjt222-agent-almanacQuality Score
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