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This feature enables a UI that lets you create, read, update and delete virtual services and destination rules, which are traffic management features of Istio.
Prerequisite: Turning on this feature does not enable Istio. A cluster administrator needs to enable Istio for the cluster in order to use the feature.
To enable or disable this feature, refer to the instructions on the main page about enabling experimental features.
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A central advantage of Istio’s traffic management features is that they allow dynamic request routing, which is useful for canary deployments, blue/green deployments, or A/B testing.
When enabled, this feature turns on a page that lets you configure some traffic management features of Istio using the Rancher UI. Without this feature, you need to use kubectl to manage traffic with Istio.
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The feature enables two UI tabs: one tab for Virtual Services and another for Destination Rules.
To see these tabs,