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Istiodoes not provide service discovery,although most services are automatically added to the registry by Pilotadapters that reflect the discovered services of the underlying platform (Kubernetes, Consul, plain DNS).Additional services can also be registered manually using aServiceEntry configuration.

Why is this so useful? Without virtual services, Envoy distributestraffic using least requests load balancing between all service instances, asdescribed in the introduction. You can improve this behavior with what you knowabout the workloads. For example, some might represent a different version. Thiscan be useful in A/B testing, where you might want to configure traffic routesbased on percentages across different service versions, or to directtraffic from your internal users to a particular set of instances.

In some cases you also need to configure destination rules to use thesefeatures, as these are where you specify your service subsets. Specifyingservice subsets and other destination-specific policies in a separate objectlets you reuse these cleanly between virtual services. You can find out moreabout destination rules in the next section.

Note in this and the other examples on this page, we use a Kubernetes short name for thedestination hosts for simplicity. When this rule is evaluated, Istio adds a domain suffix basedon the namespace of the virtual service that contains the routing rule to getthe fully qualified name for the host. Using short names in our examplesalso means that you can copy and try them in any namespace you like.

As you saw above, routing rules are a powerful tool for routing particularsubsets of traffic to particular destinations. You can set match conditions ontraffic ports, header fields, URIs, and more. For example, this virtual servicelets users send traffic to two separate services, ratings and reviews, as ifthey were part of a bigger virtual service at Thevirtual service rules match traffic based on request URIs and direct requests tothe appropriate service.

You can add multiple match conditions to the same match block to AND yourconditions, or add multiple match blocks to the same rule to OR your conditions.You can also have multiple routing rules for any given virtual service. Thislets you make your routing conditions as complex or simple as you like within asingle virtual service. A full list of match condition fields and their possiblevalues can be found in theHTTPMatchRequest reference.

By default, Istio uses a least requests load balancing policy, where requestsare distributed among the instances with the least number of requests. Istio also supports thefollowing models, which you can specify in destination rules for requests to aparticular service or service subset.

You use a gateway tomanage inbound and outbound traffic for your mesh, letting you specify whichtraffic you want to enter or leave the mesh. Gateway configurations are appliedto standalone Envoy proxies that are running at the edge of the mesh, ratherthan sidecar Envoy proxies running alongside your service workloads.

Gateways are primarily used to manage ingress traffic, but you can alsoconfigure egress gateways. An egress gateway lets you configure a dedicated exitnode for the traffic leaving the mesh, letting you limit which services can orshould access external networks, or to enablesecure control of egress trafficto add security to your mesh, for example. You can also use a gateway toconfigure a purely internal proxy.

Istio provides some preconfigured gateway proxy deployments(istio-ingressgateway and istio-egressgateway) that you can use - both aredeployed if you use our demo installation,while just the ingress gateway is deployed with ourdefault profile.You can apply your own gateway configurations to these deployments or deploy andconfigure your own gateway proxies.

You use aservice entry to addan entry to the service registry that Istio maintains internally. After you addthe service entry, the Envoy proxies can send traffic to the service as if itwas a service in your mesh. Configuring service entries allows you to managetraffic for services running outside of the mesh, including the following tasks:

You can configure virtual services and destination rules to control traffic to aservice entry in a more granular way, in the same way you configure traffic forany other service in the mesh. For example, the following destination ruleadjusts the TCP connection timeout for requests to the ext-svc.example.comexternal service that we configured using the service entry:

By default, Istio configures every Envoy proxy to accept traffic on all theports of its associated workload, and to reach every workload in the mesh whenforwarding traffic. You can use a sidecar configuration to do the following:

You might want to limit sidecar reachability like this in larger applications,where having every proxy configured to reach every other service in the mesh canpotentially affect mesh performance due to high memory usage.

As well as helping you direct traffic around your mesh, Istio provides opt-infailure recovery and fault injection features that you can configure dynamicallyat runtime. Using these features helps your applications operate reliably,ensuring that the service mesh can tolerate failing nodes and preventinglocalized failures from cascading to other nodes.

Unlike other mechanisms for introducing errors, such as delaying packets orkilling pods at the network layer, Istio lets you inject faults at theapplication layer. This lets you inject more relevant failures, such as HTTPerror codes, to get more relevant results.

While Istio failure recovery features improve the reliability andavailability of services in the mesh, applications must handle the failureor errors and take appropriate fallback actions. For example, when allinstances in a load balancing pool have failed, Envoy returns an HTTP 503code. The application must implement any fallback logic needed to handle theHTTP 503 error code.

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Section 1. Policy. For decades, the United States has effectively reaped the benefits of operating in space to enhance our national security, civil, and commercial sectors. Our society now depends on space technologies and space-based capabilities for communications, navigation, weather forecasting, and much more. Given the significance of space activities, the United States considers the continued unfettered access to and freedom to operate in space of vital interest to advance the security, economic prosperity, and scientific knowledge of the Nation.

Today, space is becoming increasingly congested and contested, and that trend presents challenges for the safety, stability, and sustainability of U.S. space operations. Already, the Department of Defense (DoD) tracks over 20,000 objects in space, and that number will increase dramatically as new, more capable sensors come online and are able to detect smaller objects. DoD publishes a catalog of space objects and makes notifications of potential conjunctions (that is, two or more objects coming together at the same or nearly the same point in time and space). As the number of space objects increases, however, this limited traffic management activity and architecture will become inadequate. At the same time, the contested nature of space is increasing the demand for DoD focus on protecting and defending U.S. space assets and interests.

The future space operating environment will also be shaped by a significant increase in the volume and diversity of commercial activity in space. Emerging commercial ventures such as satellite servicing, debris removal, in-space manufacturing, and tourism, as well as new technologies enabling small satellites and very large constellations of satellites, are increasingly outpacing efforts to develop and implement government policies and processes to address these new activities.

To maintain U.S. leadership in space, we must develop a new approach to space traffic management (STM) that addresses current and future operational risks. This new approach must set priorities for space situational awareness (SSA) and STM innovation in science and technology (S&T), incorporate national security considerations, encourage growth of the U.S. commercial space sector, establish an updated STM architecture, and promote space safety standards and best practices across the international community.

The United States recognizes that spaceflight safety is a global challenge and will continue to encourage safe and responsible behavior in space while emphasizing the need for international transparency and STM data sharing. Through this national policy for STM and other national space strategies and policies, the United States will enhance safety and ensure continued leadership, preeminence, and freedom of action in space.

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