ess is only able to support the most basic HTTP routing and ends up pushing
every other feature of modern proxies into non-portable annotations.</p><p>To overcome Ingress&rsquo; shortcomings, Istio introduced its own configuration API for ingress traffic management.
With Istio&rsquo;s API, the client-side representation is defined using an Istio Gateway resource, with L7 traffic
moved to a VirtualService, not coincidentally the same configuration resource used for routing traffic between
services inside the