w.ibm.com/cloud/kubernetes-service/>IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS)</a> to direct traffic to the Istio
ingress gateway, while securing the traffic between them using <span class=term data-title="Mutual TLS Authentication" data-body='<p>Mutual TLS provides strong service-to-service authentication with built-in identity and credential management.
<a href="/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication">Learn more about mutual TLS authentication</a>.</p>
'>mutual TLS authentication</span>.</p><p>When yo