Deploying an Istio Gateway with TLS in EKS using the AWS Load Balancer Controller

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I have been using Linkerd as a service mesh for a while. A new requirement that has come up is to do service-to-service authorization, which is possible but cumbersome with Linkerd. Istio offers easier integration with Open Policy Agent and other external authorization systems. But this post is not about authorization. I wanted to show how I managed…