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Traffic management, connectivity, and networking

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Learn how to manage traffic in ambient mesh, from Istio’s service registry and routing to gateways and waypoint-based Layer 7 features.

          

            

              Overview of request routing

              
Learn how to configure request routing in ambient mesh using HTTPRoutes and GRPCRoutes, including …

          

        
          

            

              Ingress

              
Send requests to apps from outside your ambient mesh setup by deploying an ingress gateway.

          

        
          

            

              Egress

              
Control outbound traffic from your ambient mesh using ztunnel (L4) or a waypoint (L7).

          

        
          

            

              Load balancing

              
Configure load balancing in ambient mesh — from ztunnel’s automatic L4 round-robin to advanced L7 …

          

        
          

            

              Traffic splitting

              
Split traffic by percentage across service versions in ambient mesh using HTTPRoutes, enabling A/B …

          

        
          

            

              Mirroring

              
Mirror live traffic to a shadow service in ambient mesh to safely test changes in production without …

          

        
          

            

              Redirects and rewrites

              
Configure HTTP redirects and URL rewrites in ambient mesh using HTTPRoute rules at a gateway or …

          

        
    

        

  

SetupWaypoints