outside the cluster) machine (a bare metal or a VM), integrated with the Istio service mesh. The MySQL service becomes
a first-class citizen of the mesh with all the beneficial features of Istio applicable. Among other things, the service
becomes addressable by a local cluster domain name, for example by <code>mysqldb.vm.svc.cluster.local</code>, and the communication
to it can be secured by
<a href=/v1.3/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication>mutual TLS authentication</a>. There is no need to cr