While Istio’s main focus is management of traffic between microservices inside a service mesh, Istio can also manage ingress (from outside into the mesh) and egress (from the mesh outwards) traffic. Istio can uniformly enforce access policies and aggregate telemetry data for mesh-internal, ingress and egress traffic. In this blog post, we show how to apply monitoring and access policies to HTTP egress traffic with Istio. Use case Consider an organization that runs applications that process ...
