 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=/v1.12/blog/2018/v1alpha3-routing/gateways.svg title="Gateways in an Istio service mesh"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.12/blog/2018/v1alpha3-routing/gateways.svg alt="Role of