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Istio network resilience and testing features allow you to set up and test failure recovery and to inject faults to test resilience. You set up these features dynamically at runtime to improve the reliability of your applications in the service mesh. The network resilience and testing features available in this release are:
Timeouts: The amount of time that a sidecar proxy should wait for replies from a service. You can set up a virtual service to configure specific timeouts for a service. The default timeout for HTTP requests is 15 seconds.
Retries: The number of retries allowed by the sidecar proxy to connect to a service after an initial connection failure. You can set up a virtual service to enable and configure the number of retries for a service. By default, no retries are allowed.
Fault injection: Set up fault injection mechanisms to test failure recovery of applications. You can set up a virtual service to set up and inject faults into a service. You can set delays to mimic network latency or an overloaded upstream service. You can also set aborts to mimic crashes in an upstream service.