vice entry for an external MySQL instance</h3><p>TCP mesh-external service entries come to our rescue.</p><ol><li><p>Get the IP address of your MySQL database instance. As an option, you can use the
<a href=https://linux.die.net/man/1/host>host</a> command:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ export MYSQL_DB_IP=$(host $MYSQL_DB_HOST | grep &#34; has address &#34; | cut -d&#34; &#34; -f4)
</code></pre><p>For a local database, set <code>MYSQL_DB_IP</code> to contain the I