Managing traffic

Incoming and outgoing traffic in Istio is managed through ingress and egress gateways.

The Kubernetes environment provides ingress resources for services that can be exposed for access from outside the cluster. Istio also provides its own gateway, which works seamlessly with Kubernetes, and it provides enhanced capabilities such as monitoring and route rules that can be applied to traffic entering the cluster.

Managing Ingress traffic patterns

At the beginning of this chapter, we introduced the Istio primitive gateway and created a bookinfo-gateway, which allowed http traffic from all external hosts on port 80. Let's get started:

1. Review the definition of mygateway that we created at the beginning...