This blog presents my latest experience about how to configure and enable proxy protocol with stack of AWS NLB and Istio Ingress gateway. The Proxy Protocol was designed to chain proxies and reverse-proxies without losing the client information. The proxy protocol prevents the need for infrastructure changes or NATing firewalls, and offers the benefits of being protocol agnostic and providing good scalability. Additionally, we also enable the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header in the deployment to m...