[Question] Enable in-mesh pod to communicate with another in-mesh pod using PodIP (mTLS enabled)

[naveen.adisesha]

I posted this. Want to understand what you think about my approach.

Istio-mTLS and POD IP, Port

Have seen that lot of teams are having issue to reach podIP and ports when applying mtls-strict. Infact we had some difficult trying to achieve that using service entry and rules as maintenance is tough. We worked around the problem using the following approach. Basically the pod and port combination we created as a service entry. We make that service as headless. In that way we can avoid managing the endpoints manually using Service Entry, Also all the endpoints,port are treated as service an…