esh.
Traffic then flows through internal services via sidecar gateways.
It is also common for applications to consume external
services (e.g., Google Maps API). These may be called directly or, in certain deployments, all traffic
exiting the mesh may be forced through dedicated egress gateways. The following diagram depicts
this mental model.</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:35.204472660409245%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.8/blog/2018/v1alpha3-rou