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microservices-patterns · manutej — Claude Code skill: Istio and resilience

A microservices skill covering service mesh, circuit breakers, traffic splitting and Istio. Useful when services fail in cascades or you need a canary release.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill microservices-patterns -a claude-code
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What microservices-patterns does

The skill hands your agent working templates for microservice architecture: VirtualService and DestinationRule manifests, version-based traffic splitting, connection pools, outlier detection. It walks through the Istio data plane and control plane, the role of Istiod, Envoy sidecars and the iptables rules that intercept traffic.

A separate section covers resilience: circuit breaker states, retries with exponential backoff and jitter, timeouts, and fault injection for testing assumptions. There is material on mTLS, distributed tracing, and ingress and egress gateways.

One caveat: everything here assumes Istio and Kubernetes, so the YAML examples expect a cluster with the mesh already running. Without a control plane there is nowhere to apply those manifests, which makes this worth checking before you install.

What it helps with

  • run a canary release by splitting traffic weights
  • stop cascading failures with a circuit breaker
  • add retries with exponential backoff and jitter
  • turn on mTLS between services in the mesh
  • understand how the Istio data plane and control plane fit together

Example prompts for the agent

  • write a VirtualService that splits traffic 90/10 between v1 and v2
  • configure outlier detection so failing instances get ejected from the pool
  • inject a delay into a route to test how the service holds up

How to install microservices-patterns

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill microservices-patterns -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/microservices-patterns/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/microservices-patterns/

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about microservices-patterns

How do I install microservices-patterns in Claude?

Run npx skills add manutej/luxor-claude-marketplace --skill microservices-patterns -a claude-code. The skill file then lands at ~/.claude/skills/microservices-patterns/SKILL.md.

What does microservices-patterns do?

It gives the agent templates and explanations for microservice patterns: service mesh, traffic routing, circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, mTLS and distributed tracing with Istio.

What do I need for the examples to work?

The configs target Istio and Kubernetes, so you need a cluster with the service mesh deployed. Without a control plane there is nothing to apply the VirtualService and DestinationRule manifests to.

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