Istio - Default retry VirtualService configuration

During an Istio set-up on a new cluster, I don't know why and I don't find in the Istio documentation an explanation, but by default, VirtualServices that I created do a retry on an error 503.

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Example of one VirtualService I use

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: gateway
  namespace: development
spec:
  gateways:
  - development/ingressgw
  hosts:
  - gateway.dev.rtm.com
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        prefix: /
    route:
    - destination:
        host: gateway.development.svc.cluster.local
        port:
          number: 443

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So if you don't want an automatic retry, you just have to add the following block in your object in the http list.

    retries:
      attempts: 0

Complete correction

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: gateway
  namespace: development
spec:
  gateways:
  - development/ingressgw
  hosts:
  - gateway.dev.rtm.com
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        prefix: /
    retries:
      attempts: 0
    route:
    - destination:
        host: gateway.development.svc.cluster.local
        port:
          number: 443

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If you have some information about that default config, please share it.

I hope it will help you in your istio configuration!

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