This book contains a number of specific terms that you might not have come across before, and here is a brief glossary to help you while reading this book:
- Ingress gateway: In Kubernetes, an ingress is an object that allows external access to internal microservices. An ingress is a collection of rules to route external traffic to services inside the Kubernetes cluster. In Istio, the ingress gateway sits at the edge of the cluster and allows the creation of multiple ingress gateways to configure access to the cluster.
- Egress gateway: The egress gateway is a feature of Istio that allows external access to the microservices running inside a Kubernetes cluster. This gateway also sits on the edge of the service mesh.
- Polyglot programming ...