y deployment</a>. With Istio, you can specify that <strong>v1</strong> of a service receives 90% of incoming traffic, while <strong>v2</strong> of that service only receives 10%. With standard Kubernetes deployments, the only way to achieve this is to manually control the number of available Pods for each version, for example 9 Pods running v1 and 1 Pod running v2. This type of manual control is hard to implement, and over time may have trouble scaling. For more information, check out <a href=/v1.14/blog/20