Have you participated in canary releases via Istio or played a leading role?

I participated in canary releases using Istio, performing tasks related to traffic routing configuration and monitoring.

As a lead, I:

• Configured routing rules in Istio VirtualService for gradual traffic shifting to a new version of the service.
• Organized automatic rollback upon error detection through integration with monitoring and alerting systems.
• Coordinated development and QA teams for a smooth transition and risk minimization.

Canary releases via Istio allow for safe deployment of changes, testing them on a small subset of users and quickly responding to issues without a full rollback of the entire service.