This is part 1 in a new series about secure control of egress traffic in Istio that I am going to publish. In this installment, I explain why you should apply egress traffic control to your cluster, the attacks involving egress traffic you want to prevent, and the requirements for a system for egress traffic control to do so. Once you agree that you should control the egress traffic coming from your cluster, the following questions arise: What is required from a system for secure control of e...