By default, Istio-enabled services are unable to access services and URLs outside the cluster. Pods use iptables to transparently redirect all outbound traffic to the sidecar proxy, which only handles intra-cluster destinations.

See the Egress Task for information on configuring Istio to contact external services.

This directory contains samples showing how to enable pods to contact a few well known services.

If Istio is not configured to allow pods to contact external services, the pods will see errors such as 404s, HTTPS connection problems, and TCP connection problems. If ServiceEntries are misconfigured pods may see problems with server names.

After an operator runs kubectl create -f aptget.yaml pods will be able to succeed with apt-get update and apt-get install.

After an operator runs kubectl create -f github.yaml pods will be able to succeed with git clone https://github.com/fortio/fortio.git.

Running kubectl create -f pypi.yaml allows pods to update Python libraries using pip.

It is not a best practice to enable pods to update libraries dynamically. We are providing these samples because they have proven to be helpful with interactive troubleshooting. Security minded clusters should only allow traffic to service dependencies such as cloud services.

Note that this note shows how to configure Istio to contact services by default. The technique discussed there does not allow HTTP on port 80 or SSH on port 22. These examples will allow external communication for ports 80 and 22.