e capabilities, so there was little to no interruption of existing workloads or applications.</p><p>Using the built-in ingress gateway (along with some <code>VirtualService</code> and <code>DestinationRule</code> resources) this post showed how you can easily leverage Istio’s traffic management for cluster-external ingress traffic and cluster-internal service-to-service traffic. This technique is a great example of an incremental approach to adopting Istio, and can be especially useful in real-world cases