How to configure rate limiter in Istio

In this video, you'll learn how to configure rate limiting on workloads running inside the Istio service mesh.

As Istio doesn't have a dedicated Custom Resource Definition (CRD) that we could use to configure rate limiting, we'll use EnvoyFilter resource to configure the rate limiter feature inside the Envoy proxy.

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[Rajesh-kkp]

Nice content.. 👍.. Mesh week sessions are also awesome...

[lavnemesis]

thanks a lot. Much needed article on GRL. Appreciate it.

[hubertsiwik]

Looking forward to the article about global rate limiter ;)
Let me ask if you recommend any materials where I could get to know how to apply descriptors into global RL. The reason I would like to do that is to retain a limited number of requests sent to ratelimit+Redis. By and large, rough filtering with descriptors applied to global RT (ingress-gateway is being applied local rate limiting), fine filtering by decision taken from ratelimit service.

[makzzz]

Thanks for the video, the documentation is quite confusing!

[MohitSharma-xc]

Hi Peter, very nice and informative video. I have implemented global ratelimiter using ratelimit service and redis service and it is working fine. But it has single cm containing all the urls we need to ratelimit. I am running multiple pods in which multiple services are exposed and each pod has 40-50 urls. Now, i want to maintain multiple configmaps containing urls podwise. Is it possible to use multiple cm in global ratelimit?

[luv-nnd]

Love it! but can you make one for global rate limiting as local rate limiting is only for one pod, but normally we will have multiple pods for one service.

[ravicheviti]

is there a way to setup rate limiting per ip based. Means We want to limit number of request from a client ip. 100 request for 1 mins. any help?