Locality weighted distribution

Follow this guide to configure the distribution of traffic across localities.

Before proceeding, be sure to complete the steps under before you begin.

In this task, you will use the curl pod in region1 zone1 as the source of requests to the HelloWorld service. You will configure Istio with the following distribution across localities:

Configure Weighted Distribution

Apply a DestinationRule that configures the following:

• Outlier detection for the HelloWorld service. This is required in order for distribution to function properly. In particular, it configures the sidecar proxies to know when endpoints for a service are unhealthy.

• Weighted Distribution for the HelloWorld service as described in the table above.

$ kubectl --context="${CTX_PRIMARY}" apply -n sample -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: helloworld
spec:
  host: helloworld.sample.svc.cluster.local
  trafficPolicy:
    loadBalancer:
      localityLbSetting:
        enabled: true
        distribute:
        - from: region1/zone1/*
          to:
            "region1/zone1/*": 70
            "region1/zone2/*": 20
            "region3/zone4/*": 10
    outlierDetection:
      consecutive5xxErrors: 100
      interval: 1s
      baseEjectionTime: 1m
EOF

Verify the distribution

Call the HelloWorld service from the curl pod:

$ kubectl exec --context="${CTX_R1_Z1}" -n sample -c curl \
  "$(kubectl get pod --context="${CTX_R1_Z1}" -n sample -l \
  app=curl -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')" \
  -- curl -sSL helloworld.sample:5000/hello

Repeat this a number of times and verify that the number of replies for each pod match the expected percentage in the table at the top of this guide.

Congratulations! You successfully configured locality distribution!

Next steps

Cleanup resources and files from this task.