g independently and no differently than when loads change for other reasons.</p>
<p>Istio’s <a href="/v0.8/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration/">routing rules</a> also provide other important advantages; you can easily control
fine grain traffic percentages (e.g., route 1% of traffic without requiring 100 pods) and you can control traffic using other criteria (e.g., route traffic for specific users to the canary version). To illustrate, let’s look at deploying the <strong>helloworld</st