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Traefik Loadbalancer is used as external loadbalancer need to use istio for mtls in my AKS cluster if i enable istio addon will it help for me to set up only mtls without loadbalancer.
The aim is to make communication between the pods using istio and external communication using traefik.
There is the Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service. Please check to see if this fits your needs. Enabling Istio for mTLS within your AKS cluster and using Traefik for external communication is a valid approach. Just ensure that Traefik is configured correctly to handle external traffic, and Istio will take care of secure communication between your pods.
@deherman-MSFT
Thanks for the update here my major query is that how communication between the traefik pod and my application pods why because traefik will not communicate with service name it is going to pick pod ip.
By the way traefik is already configured in my environment and running fine. Need to install istio add-on wanted to know whether it is perfect approach or not.