Explore advanced Istio configurations for production-ready microservices in this conference talk. Learn to identify app versions, deploy canaries, run A/B tests, set timeouts, configure retries with exponential backoff, enforce rate limits, enable circuit breakers, and inject faults for testing. Discover how to enhance security by enabling mTLS and implementing service-to-service access control lists (RBAC). Move beyond basic Kubernetes deployments and leverage Istio's full potential to solve complex microservices challenges and build resilient workloads.