4 Istio gateways: Getting traffic into a cluster
This chapter covers
- Defining entry points into a cluster
- Routing ingress traffic to deployments in your cluster
- Securing ingress traffic
- Routing non HTTP/S traffic
We usually run interesting services and applications inside our cluster. And as we’ll see throughout the book, Istio allows us to solve some difficult challenges in service-to-service communication. It is this intra-service communication where Istio shines (within a cluster or across clusters).
Before services communicate with each other, something must trigger the interactions. For example, an end user purchasing an item, a client querying our API, and so on. What each of these triggers have in common is that they originate outside ...
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