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WebSocket protocol upgrade

WebSocket protocol upgrade is the mechanism used to transition a standard HTTP connection into a WebSocket connection, typically facilitated at the network Ingress level.^[400-devops__07-Monitoring-and-Observability__k8s-istio__samples__websockets__README.md]

In containerized environments utilizing a Service mesh like Istio, this transition is explicitly managed by traffic routing rules to handle incoming Ingress traffic.^[400-devops__07-Monitoring-and-Observability__k8s-istio__samples__websockets__README.md] For example, in Istio v1alpha3 routing rules (available after release v0.8.0), an Ingress Gateway and VirtualService are configured to "enable the upgrade" to WebSocket for incoming traffic.^[400-devops__07-Monitoring-and-Observability__k8s-istio__samples__websockets__README.md]

Verification

A successful protocol upgrade is verified when the client (such as a web browser) displays an active connection status.^[400-devops__07-Monitoring-and-Observability__k8s-istio__samples__websockets__README.md] In a functional state, the connection status will indicate open, permitting real-time bidirectional data transfer—such as updating server-side data and reflecting changes in a client-side table without a page refresh.^[400-devops__07-Monitoring-and-Observability__k8s-istio__samples__websockets__README.md]

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