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Petr McAllister
Petr is an IT Professional with more than 20+ years of international experience and Master’s Degree in Computer Science. He is a technologist at Tetrate.
The Istio service mesh comes with its own ingress, but we see customers with requirements to use a non-Istio ingress all the time. Previously, we’ve covered Traefik ingress. With some slight adjustments to the approach we suggested previously, we at Tetrate learned how to implement Traefik as the ingress gateway to your Istio Service Mesh. This article will show you how.
The flow of traffic is shown on the diagram below. As soon as requests arrive at the service mesh from the Traefik ingress, Istio has the ability to apply security, observability and traffic steering rules to the request:
Incoming traffic bypasses the Istio sidecar and arrives directly at Traefik, so the requests terminate at the Traefik ingress.
Traefik uses the IngressRoute config to rewrite the “Host” header to match the destination, and forwards the request to the targeted service, which is a several step process:
Requests exiting Traefik Ingress are redirected to the Istio sidecar Continue reading
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