n the future</a>.
The following instructions allow you to choose to use either the Gateway API or the Istio configuration API when configuring
traffic management in the mesh. Follow instructions under either the <code>Gateway API</code> or <code>Istio classic</code> tab,
according to your preference.</p><p>Note that this document uses the Gateway API to configure internal mesh (east-west) traffic,
i.e., not just ingress (north-south) traffic.
Configuring internal mesh traffic is an
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