# SMI Traffic Split

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh-interface/smi-traffic-split/  
**Provider:** Service Mesh Interface (SMI) — https://apis.io/providers/service-mesh-interface/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/servicemeshinterface/smi-spec/blob/main/apis/traffic-split/v1alpha4/traffic-split.md

SMI Traffic Split is one of 4 APIs that [Service Mesh Interface (SMI)](https://apis.io/providers/service-mesh-interface/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Traffic Management, Traffic Splitting, Canary, Blue-Green, and Progressive Delivery.

Traffic Split defines the `TrafficSplit` resource, which allows users to incrementally direct percentages of traffic between various services. It is the canonical SMI primitive for canary deployments, blue/green rollouts, and A/B testing across a mesh.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **APIVersion**
- **Kind**
- **Specification** — https://github.com/servicemeshinterface/smi-spec/blob/main/apis/traffic-split/v1alpha4/traffic-split.md
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/service-mesh-interface/refs/heads/main/./json-schema/traffic-split-schema.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/service-mesh-interface/refs/heads/main/./examples/traffic-split-example.yaml

## Other Service Mesh Interface (SMI) APIs (3)

- [SMI Traffic Access Control](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh-interface/smi-traffic-access/)
- [SMI Traffic Specs](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh-interface/smi-traffic-specs/)
- [SMI Traffic Metrics](https://apis.io/apis/service-mesh-interface/smi-traffic-metrics/)

## Tags

Traffic Management, Traffic Splitting, Canary, Blue-Green, Progressive Delivery, Kubernetes CRD, SMI

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