forwards the traffic to the MongoDB host, by its hostname.</p><ol><li><p><a href=/v1.18/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-gateway/#deploy-istio-egress-gateway>Deploy Istio egress gateway</a>.</p></li><li><p>If you did not perform the steps in <a href=#control-tcp-egress-traffic-without-a-gateway>the previous section</a>, perform them now.</p></li><li><p>You may want to enable <span class=term data-title="Mutual TLS Authentication" data-body='<p>Mutual TLS provides strong service-to-service authent