ssociated virtual service
to direct port 9090 requests to the proxy service, and then configure <code>istioctl</code> to use the gateway address for the proxy
service. This would be a &ldquo;proper&rdquo; approach.</p><p>However, since this is just a simple demonstration where we have access to both clusters, we will simply <code>port-forward</code>
the proxy service to <code>localhost</code>:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl port-forward -n external-istiod s