ent teams.</p><p>When we launched Istio in 2017, we brought many years of experience from Google&rsquo;s production API serving infrastructure and IBM&rsquo;s Amalgam8 project, and mapped it onto Kubernetes. We soon came up against the limitations of Kubernetes&rsquo; Ingress API. A desire to support all proxy implementations meant that Ingress only supported the most basic of HTTP routing features, with other features often implemented as vendor-specific annotations. The Ingress API was shared between infr