<p>Currently <a href="https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/9030" rel="noreferrer">Istio does not support a fully automated certificate procedure</a>. The standard ingress does support this by means of cert-manager. Would it be possible to combine standard ingress configuration for certification management with istio for other stuff? What are the down-sides to this combination?</p>

<p>This was discussed in <a href="https://medium.com/ww-engineering/istio-part-ii-e219a2e771bb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a blog post on Medium last fall</a>, actually.  I held onto the link because I too am interested in using nginx-ingress as the front-end, but then taking advantage of istio "for other stuff".  If it pans out for you, would love to hear.</p>
