Optimizing Istio Ingress Gateway Performance

How do you optimize the Istio ingress gateway? When and why would you need to perform this? In this video, I discuss scenarios where a single Istio ingress gateway may not be suitable for your Kubernetes environment because of the degraded performance from bearing the load of many service proxy configurations. You may be running multiple unrelated workloads (in a multi-tenant environment) with varying configurations and requirements. In situations like this, it may be better to have multiple ingress gateways that serve the different types of applications in your Kubernetes cluster. In addition to that, to avoid stressing a single ingress gateway with all the configurations for every proxy in the Istio service mesh, you can optimize each gateway's performance by filtering the proxies it should know about.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Running multiple gateways for different purposes
00:55 - Improving ingress gateway performance by creating multiple gateways
01:59 - Improving ingress gateway performance by filtering the virtual services attached to it
02:18 - The cost implication of running multiple gateways in a cloud environment
02:35 - Code-walk-through and demo
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[@matc8085]

Your content on istio is the best

[@Luther_Luffeigh]

I saw you on AWS couch channel but didn’t realize you had your own channel. Thanks to ESO page that pointed to this channel…love your content 🙌🏽🚀🔥

[@RafaelDurelli]

Great videos. Keep going :)

[@arozendojr]

Can you answer a question, is it possible to use jaeger + istio, for every request and response event of each microservice? automatic without changing microservice/pod code? How can I look for the configuration I should do?

[@tomasferrari92]

Do you think having a gateway for each environment (Dev,uat, prod) is a good decision? Thank you!