KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

Concerned about secure and reliable outgoing traffic from your organization's mesh network? With the increasing demand to use external vendor apis for LLMs, along with vulnerabilities like Log4j, the need for preventing data exfiltration and maintaining strong safeguards is critical. But managing access to multiple external domains within the service mesh can be daunting. Discover the secrets behind building a powerful Internet Egress gateway using Istio and Envoy. This enlightening talk unveils a way to define fine-grained access policy to monitor and audit outgoing traffic from your mesh network. Besides, it demonstrates how to build a generic multi-tenant gateway that can be used across heterogeneous services and save years of repeated engineering work. By the end of the talk, attendees will gain an understanding of what an Internet Egress Gateway is, why it is necessary, and how they can configure it for their own services using the open-source Istio/Envoy based solution.