# Cross-Cluster Traffic Mirroring with Istio

DevFeed: [Cross-Cluster Traffic Mirroring with Istio](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cross-cluster-traffic-mirroring-with-istio-27994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2020-06-10-crossclustertrafficmirroringwithistio/>)

Author: Mert Acikportali

Published: 2020-06-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [istio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/istio.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [containerization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containerization.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [istio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/istio.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how Istio can mirror live production traffic to another environment for developing and validating features. It presents traffic mirroring as an alternative to generating mock traffic, while noting that the mirrored traffic percentage can be configured through a parameter.

## Source excerpt

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.-- C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lectureHave you ever enthusiastically released a new, delightful version to product...