This is a good read though I don't agree 100% with everything. I also ignore ingress via nodeport and external provisioning and only use istio where there are s

This is a good read though I don't agree 100% with everything. I also ignore ingress via nodeport and external provisioning and only use istio where there are service dependencies and it makes sense. This approach then becomes cumbersome requiring (as you note) additional middleware and code.