What Is Envoy Gateway, and Why Is It Required for Kubernetes?
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JULY 8, 2023
Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers). It was observed that application developers found it difficult to configure Envoy proxy as an API gateway and ingress controller.
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