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Which One is the Right Choice for the Ingress Gateway of Your Service Mesh?

Kubernetes Ingress, Istio Gateway or API Gateway?

By default, in a Kubernetes cluster with the Istio service mesh enabled, services can only be accessed inside the cluster. However, some of the services may need to be exposed to the external network as well. Kubernetes and Istio provide a variety of means to get external traffic into your cluster including NodePort, LoadBalancer, Kubernetes Ingress and Istio Gateway. With all these options, which one should be the right choice for your service mesh running in production?

如何为服务网格选择入口网关?

Kubernetes Ingress, Istio Gateway还是API Gateway?

在启用了Istio服务网格的Kubernetes集群中,缺省情况下只能在集群内部访问网格中的服务,要如何才能从外部网络访问这些服务呢? Kubernetes和Istio提供了NodePort,LoadBalancer,Kubernetes Ingress,Istio Gateway等多种外部流量入口的方式,面对这么多种方式,我们在产品部署中应该如何选择?