I have installed istio minimal in my eks cluster and i am using aws alb controller for my ingress. Without mesh my ingress is able to talk to the pod exposed via a service at port 80.
On adding the mesh it throws a 502 error from alb.
My implementation looks like internet → Load balancer (HTTPS) → kubernetes service → Pod(meshed).
My goal is to achieve end to end TLS encryption and I dont want to use istio gateway or ingress gateway.
How can i fix this or is it mandatory to have ingress gateway for such a scenario?