<p>I'm working on a side project to learn Istio in my spare time, part of which is getting my hands dirty with Istio routing. </p>

<p>I'm trying to setup a Virtual Service such that any traffic on "/" gets routed to google.com. I can get Virtual Services to work with any in-cluster pods/services, but I can't seem to configure Istio to route to anything outside the cluster.</p>

<p>Any guidance would be much appreciated, cheers</p>

Kit Freddura
<p>You have <a href="https://istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/#configuring-istio-external-services" rel="nofollow noreferrer">to create a Service Entry</a> for google.com and then create a Virtual Service, referencing google.com in the same way as in-mesh services. Note the issue of the protocols - do you want to access google.com by HTTP or HTTPS? You may want to let Istio <a href="https://istio.io/docs/examples/advanced-egress/egress-tls-origination/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">perform TLS origination</a> for you.</p>
