ess gateway to expose services inside the mesh to external traffic. The services can be HTTP or
HTTPS. In the case of HTTPS, the gateway passes 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 