Egress gateway example from docs not working on GKE

After creating a new cluster on GKE and following the steps in https://istio.io/latest/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-gateway/, requesting http://edition.cnn.com/politics (the URL from the example) returns a 503 instead of 200.

The problem is described in the following issue:

Deploying the gateway using the helm templates from the same version as the cluster (1.2.10) made everything work like a charm!
The topic can be closed now :smiley: