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Secure Your Services with Istio: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up Istio TLS Connections

Secure Your Services with Istio: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up Istio TLS Connections

Looking to secure the communication between services in your Kubernetes cluster with Istio? In this article, we’ll provide a step-by-step guide on how to establish a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection with Istio. We’ll cover how to expose TLS on the Istio ingress gateway, consume SSL from Istio, and enforce mutual TLS (mTLS) between different services in the cluster. By following the instructions in this guide, you can ensure secure communication and protect your applications from cyber threats. With Istio, you can easily centralize and externalize security aspects, allowing your applications to focus on their business logic and reducing the workload on your development team.