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May 23, 2021 · Cloud Native

Integrating VMs into Istio Service Mesh: WorkloadEntry, WorkloadGroup, and Smart DNS

This article explains how Istio versions 1.6‑1.8 enable virtual machine integration into a service mesh using WorkloadEntry and WorkloadGroup for automatic registration, and introduces the smart DNS sidecar proxy that allows seamless hostname‑based access to mesh services from VMs.