Mastering Service Mesh

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 of this chapter:

$ cat 00-create-gateway.yaml

We also created the Istio bookinfo virtual service, which uses mygateway.

2. Review the bookinfo virtual service:

$ cat 01-create-virtual-service.yaml

As shown by the output of the gateway and virtual service, we are routing any external host http request on route /productpage to the internal Kubernetes productpage service at port 9080.

Let's take an example where we want to route http://bookinfo.istio.io ...