Good Practices for using Istio effectively

The following 'Good Practices' apply to Tetrate Istio distributions, provided by both Tetrate Istio Distro and Tetrate Istio Subscription.

Built on Community Istio

Tetrate Istio distributions are built directly from community Istio distributions, with the additional of necessary bug fixes and CVE updates. The official Istio Best Practices documentation is also an invaluable resource.

Useful resources

📄️ Istio Hints and Tips

Hints and Tips on using Istio effectively.

📄️ Istio and cert-manager

This integration method using istio-csr that described in this docs is not recommended for any Istio environment as it adds unnecessary complexity with no significant benefits. Istio now can auto-discover and utilize the cacerts secret natively, making this approach redundant. We maintain this documentation for reference purposes only, and it may be removed in future. Please refer to Automate Istio CA Rotation for recommended approach which provides a more robust and scalable solution for certificate management in Istio.

🗃️ Worked Examples

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