caveat here is that sometimes the IP of the MongoDB host is not
stable or known in advance.</p><p>In the cases when the IP of the MongoDB host is not stable, the egress traffic can either be
<a href=#egress-control-for-tls>controlled as TLS traffic</a>, or the traffic can be routed
<a href=/v1.8/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#direct-access-to-external-services>directly</a>, bypassing the Istio sidecar
proxies.</p><p>Get the IP address of your MongoDB database instance. As an option, yo