g a canary version in the presence of autoscaling a much simpler problem. Autoscalers may, in fact, respond to load variations resulting from traffic routing changes, but they are nevertheless functioning independently and no differently than when loads change for other reasons.</p><p>Istio’s <a href=/v1.26/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#routing-rules>routing rules</a> also provide other important advantages; you can easily control
fine-grained traffic percentages (e.g., route 1% of traffic without req