Service Mesh

Testing

Service Mesh Testing with Istio: Testing Traffic, Retries, and Circuit Breaking

Service meshes like Istio have become foundational infrastructure for microservices deployments, handling everything from mTLS encryption to sophisticated traffic management. But here's the problem most teams discover too late: Istio configuration is code, and untested code breaks in production. A misconfigured VirtualService can silently route 100% of traffic

Envoy

Envoy Proxy Testing: Filter Chains, Health Checks, and Rate Limit Validation

Envoy is the data plane proxy behind Istio, AWS App Mesh, and Contour. It handles routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, and observability for your services. When Envoy is misconfigured, the symptoms are subtle — requests fail under specific conditions, rate limits don't enforce correctly, or health checks pass