s the traffic through, without terminating TLS.</p><p>This blog post describes how to use the same ingress gateway mechanism of Istio to enable access to external services and
not to applications inside the mesh. This way Istio as a whole can serve just as a proxy server, with the added value of
observability, traffic management and policy enforcement.</p><p>The blog post shows configuring access to an HTTP and an HTTPS external service, namely <code>httpbin.org</code> and
<code>edition.cnn.com</code>.</p><