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<span class=attribution>Vadim Eisenberg</span><span> | </span><span><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#calendar"/></svg><span>&nbsp;</span>February 6, 2018<span>&nbsp;</span>(updated on February 10, 2019)</span><span> | </span><span title="2324 words"><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#clock"/></svg><span>&nbsp;</span>11 minute read</span>
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<span></span></p></div></div><nav class=toc-inlined aria-label="Table of Contents"><div><hr><ol><li role=none aria-label="Bookinfo sample application with external ratings database"><a href=#bookinfo-sample-application-with-external-ratings-database>Bookinfo sample application with external ratings database</a><ol><li role=none aria-label="Setting up the database for ratings data"><a href=#setting-up-the-database-for-ratings-data>Setting up the database for ratings data</a><li role=none aria-label="Initial setting of Bookinfo application"><a href=#initial-setting-of-bookinfo-application>Initial setting of Bookinfo application</a><li role=none aria-label="Use the database for ratings data in Bookinfo application"><a href=#use-the-database-for-ratings-data-in-bookinfo-application>Use the database for ratings data in Bookinfo application</a><li role=none aria-label="Access the webpage"><a href=#access-the-webpage>Access the webpage</a><li role=none aria-label="Mesh-external service entry for an external MySQL instance"><a href=#mesh-external-service-entry-for-an-external-mysql-instance>Mesh-external service entry for an external MySQL instance</a></ol></li><li role=none aria-label="Motivation for egress TCP traffic control"><a href=#motivation-for-egress-tcp-traffic-control>Motivation for egress TCP traffic control</a><li role=none aria-label="Service entries for TCP traffic"><a href=#service-entries-for-tcp-traffic>Service entries for TCP traffic</a><li role=none aria-label="Relation to virtual machines support"><a href=#relation-to-virtual-machines-support>Relation to virtual machines support</a><li role=none aria-label=Cleanup><a href=#cleanup>Cleanup</a><li role=none aria-label=Conclusion><a href=#conclusion>Conclusion</a><li role=none aria-label="See also"><a href=#see-also>See also</a></li></ol><hr></div></nav><div><aside class="callout warning"><div class=type><svg class="large-icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#callout-warning"/></svg></div><div class=content>This blog post was written assuming Istio 1, so some of this content may now be outdated.</div></aside></div><div><aside class="callout tip"><div class=type><svg class="large-icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#callout-tip"/></svg></div><div class=content>This blog post was updated on July 23, 2018 to use the new
<a href=/v1.7/blog/2018/v1alpha3-routing/>v1alpha3 traffic management API</a>. If you need to use the old version, follow these <a href=https://archive.istio.io/v0.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp.html>docs</a>.</div></aside></div><p>In my previous blog post, <a href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-https/>Consuming External Web Services</a>, I described how external services
can be consumed by in-mesh Istio applications via HTTPS. In this post, I demonstrate consuming external services
over TCP. You will use the <a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Istio Bookinfo sample application</a>, the version in which the book
ratings data is persisted in a MySQL database. You deploy this database outside the cluster and configure the
<em>ratings</em> microservice to use it. You define a
<a href=/v1.7/docs/reference/config/networking/service-entry/>Service Entry</a> to allow the in-mesh applications to
access the external database.</p><h2 id=bookinfo-sample-application-with-external-ratings-database>Bookinfo sample application with external ratings database</h2><p>First, you set up a MySQL database instance to hold book ratings data outside of your Kubernetes cluster. Then you
modify the <a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo sample application</a> to use your database.</p><h3 id=setting-up-the-database-for-ratings-data>Setting up the database for ratings data</h3><p>For this task you set up an instance of <a href=https://www.mysql.com>MySQL</a>. You can use any MySQL instance; I used
<a href=https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compose/mysql>Compose for MySQL</a>. I used <code>mysqlsh</code>
(<a href=https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/en/>MySQL Shell</a>) as a MySQL client to feed the ratings data.</p><ol><li><p>Set the <code>MYSQL_DB_HOST</code> and <code>MYSQL_DB_PORT</code> environment variables:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ export MYSQL_DB_HOST=&lt;your MySQL database host&gt;
$ export MYSQL_DB_PORT=&lt;your MySQL database port&gt;
</code></pre><p>In case of a local MySQL database with the default port, the values are <code>localhost</code> and <code>3306</code>, respectively.</p></li><li><p>To initialize the database, run the following command entering the password when prompted. The command is
performed with the credentials of the <code>admin</code> user, created by default by
<a href=https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compose/mysql>Compose for MySQL</a>.</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/src/mysql/mysqldb-init.sql | mysqlsh --sql --ssl-mode=REQUIRED -u admin -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT
</code></pre><p><em><strong>OR</strong></em></p><p>When using the <code>mysql</code> client and a local MySQL database, run:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/src/mysql/mysqldb-init.sql | mysql -u root -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT
</code></pre></li><li><p>Create a user with the name <code>bookinfo</code> and grant it <em>SELECT</em> privilege on the <code>test.ratings</code> table:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysqlsh --sql --ssl-mode=REQUIRED -u admin -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;CREATE USER &#39;bookinfo&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;&lt;password you choose&gt;&#39;; GRANT SELECT ON test.ratings to &#39;bookinfo&#39;;&#34;
</code></pre><p><em><strong>OR</strong></em></p><p>For <code>mysql</code> and the local database, the command is:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysql -u root -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;CREATE USER &#39;bookinfo&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;&lt;password you choose&gt;&#39;; GRANT SELECT ON test.ratings to &#39;bookinfo&#39;;&#34;
</code></pre><p>Here you apply the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege>principle of least privilege</a>. This
means that you do not use your <code>admin</code> user in the Bookinfo application. Instead, you create a special user for the
Bookinfo application , <code>bookinfo</code>, with minimal privileges. In this case, the <em>bookinfo</em> user only has the <code>SELECT</code>
privilege on a single table.</p><p>After running the command to create the user, you may want to clean your bash history by checking the number of the last
command and running <code>history -d &lt;the number of the command that created the user></code>. You don&rsquo;t want the password of the
new user to be stored in the bash history. If you&rsquo;re using <code>mysql</code>, remove the last command from
<code>~/.mysql_history</code> file as well. Read more about password protection of the newly created user in <a href=https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-user.html>MySQL documentation</a>.</p></li><li><p>Inspect the created ratings to see that everything worked as expected:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysqlsh --sql --ssl-mode=REQUIRED -u bookinfo -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;select * from test.ratings;&#34;
Enter password:
+----------+--------+
| ReviewID | Rating |
+----------+--------+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 |
+----------+--------+
</code></pre><p><em><strong>OR</strong></em></p><p>For <code>mysql</code> and the local database:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysql -u bookinfo -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;select * from test.ratings;&#34;
Enter password:
+----------+--------+
| ReviewID | Rating |
+----------+--------+
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 4 |
+----------+--------+
</code></pre></li><li><p>Set the ratings temporarily to <code>1</code> to provide a visual clue when our database is used by the Bookinfo <em>ratings</em>
service:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysqlsh --sql --ssl-mode=REQUIRED -u admin -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;update test.ratings set rating=1; select * from test.ratings;&#34;
Enter password:
Rows matched: 2 Changed: 2 Warnings: 0
+----------+--------+
| ReviewID | Rating |
+----------+--------+
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
+----------+--------+
</code></pre><p><em><strong>OR</strong></em></p><p>For <code>mysql</code> and the local database:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysql -u root -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;update test.ratings set rating=1; select * from test.ratings;&#34;
Enter password:
+----------+--------+
| ReviewID | Rating |
+----------+--------+
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
+----------+--------+
</code></pre><p>You used the <code>admin</code> user (and <code>root</code> for the local database) in the last command since the <code>bookinfo</code> user does not
have the <code>UPDATE</code> privilege on the <code>test.ratings</code> table.</p></li></ol><p>Now you are ready to deploy a version of the Bookinfo application that will use your database.</p><h3 id=initial-setting-of-bookinfo-application>Initial setting of Bookinfo application</h3><p>To demonstrate the scenario of using an external database, you start with a Kubernetes cluster with <a href=/v1.7/docs/setup/getting-started/>Istio installed</a>. Then you deploy the
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Istio Bookinfo sample application</a>, <a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/#apply-default-destination-rules>apply the default destination rules</a>, and <a href=/v1.7/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#change-to-the-blocking-by-default-policy>change Istio to the blocking-egress-by-default policy</a>.</p><p>This application uses the <code>ratings</code> microservice to fetch
book ratings, a number between 1 and 5. The ratings are displayed as stars for each review. There are several versions
of the <code>ratings</code> microservice. Some use <a href=https://www.mongodb.com>MongoDB</a>, others use <a href=https://www.mysql.com>MySQL</a>
as their database.</p><p>The example commands in this blog post work with Istio 0.8+, with or without
<a href=/v1.7/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication>mutual TLS</a> enabled.</p><p>As a reminder, here is the end-to-end architecture of the application from the
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo sample application</a>.</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:59.086918235567985%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/withistio.svg title="The original Bookinfo application"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/withistio.svg alt="The original Bookinfo application"></a></div><figcaption>The original Bookinfo application</figcaption></figure><h3 id=use-the-database-for-ratings-data-in-bookinfo-application>Use the database for ratings data in Bookinfo application</h3><ol><li><p>Modify the deployment spec of a version of the <em>ratings</em> microservice that uses a MySQL database, to use your
database instance. The spec is in <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml><code>samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml</code></a>
of an Istio release archive. Edit the following lines:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>- name: MYSQL_DB_HOST
value: mysqldb
- name: MYSQL_DB_PORT
value: &#34;3306&#34;
- name: MYSQL_DB_USER
value: root
- name: MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD
value: password
</code></pre><p>Replace the values in the snippet above, specifying the database host, port, user, and password. Note that the
correct way to work with passwords in container&rsquo;s environment variables in Kubernetes is <a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/#using-secrets-as-environment-variables>to use secrets</a>. For this
example task only, you may want to write the password directly in the deployment spec. <strong>Do not do it</strong> in a real
environment! I also assume everyone realizes that <code>"password"</code> should not be used as a password&mldr;</p></li><li><p>Apply the modified spec to deploy the version of the <em>ratings</em> microservice, <em>v2-mysql</em>, that will use your
database.</p><div><a data-skipendnotes=true style=display:none href=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml>Zip</a><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl apply -f @samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml@
deployment &#34;ratings-v2-mysql&#34; created
</code></pre></div></li><li><p>Route all the traffic destined to the <em>reviews</em> service to its <em>v3</em> version. You do this to ensure that the
<em>reviews</em> service always calls the <em>ratings</em> service. In addition, route all the traffic destined to the <em>ratings</em>
service to <em>ratings v2-mysql</em> that uses your database.</p><p>Specify the routing for both services above by adding two
<a href=/v1.7/docs/reference/config/networking/virtual-service/>virtual services</a>. These virtual services are
specified in <code>samples/bookinfo/networking/virtual-service-ratings-mysql.yaml</code> of an Istio release archive.
<strong><em>Important:</em></strong> make sure you
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/#apply-default-destination-rules>applied the default destination rules</a> before running the
following command.</p><div><a data-skipendnotes=true style=display:none href=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/networking/virtual-service-ratings-mysql.yaml>Zip</a><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl apply -f @samples/bookinfo/networking/virtual-service-ratings-mysql.yaml@
</code></pre></div></li></ol><p>The updated architecture appears below. Note that the blue arrows inside the mesh mark the traffic configured according
to the virtual services we added. According to the virtual services, the traffic is sent to <em>reviews v3</em> and
<em>ratings v2-mysql</em>.</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:59.314858206480224%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql-external.svg title="The Bookinfo application with ratings v2-mysql and an external MySQL database"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql-external.svg alt="The Bookinfo application with ratings v2-mysql and an external MySQL database"></a></div><figcaption>The Bookinfo application with ratings v2-mysql and an external MySQL database</figcaption></figure><p>Note that the MySQL database is outside the Istio service mesh, or more precisely outside the Kubernetes cluster. The
boundary of the service mesh is marked by a dashed line.</p><h3 id=access-the-webpage>Access the webpage</h3><p>Access the webpage of the application, after
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/#determine-the-ingress-ip-and-port>determining the ingress IP and port</a>.</p><p>You have a problem&mldr; Instead of the rating stars, the message <em>&ldquo;Ratings service is currently unavailable&rdquo;</em> is currently
displayed below each review:</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:36.18705035971223%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/errorFetchingBookRating.png title="The Ratings service error messages"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/errorFetchingBookRating.png alt="The Ratings service error messages"></a></div><figcaption>The Ratings service error messages</figcaption></figure><p>As in <a href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-https/>Consuming External Web Services</a>, you experience <strong>graceful service degradation</strong>,
which is good. The application did not crash due to the error in the <em>ratings</em> microservice. The webpage of the
application correctly displayed the book information, the details, and the reviews, just without the rating stars.</p><p>You have the same problem as in <a href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-https/>Consuming External Web Services</a>, namely all the traffic
outside the Kubernetes cluster, both TCP and HTTP, is blocked by default by the sidecar proxies. To enable such traffic
for TCP, a mesh-external service entry for TCP must be defined.</p><h3 id=mesh-external-service-entry-for-an-external-mysql-instance>Mesh-external service entry for an external MySQL instance</h3><p>TCP mesh-external service entries come to our rescue.</p><ol><li><p>Get the IP address of your MySQL database instance. As an option, you can use the
<a href=https://linux.die.net/man/1/host>host</a> command:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ export MYSQL_DB_IP=$(host $MYSQL_DB_HOST | grep &#34; has address &#34; | cut -d&#34; &#34; -f4)
</code></pre><p>For a local database, set <code>MYSQL_DB_IP</code> to contain the IP of your machine, accessible from your cluster.</p></li><li><p>Define a TCP mesh-external service entry:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl apply -f - &lt;&lt;EOF
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
name: mysql-external
spec:
hosts:
- $MYSQL_DB_HOST
addresses:
- $MYSQL_DB_IP/32
ports:
- name: tcp
number: $MYSQL_DB_PORT
protocol: tcp
location: MESH_EXTERNAL
EOF
</code></pre></li><li><p>Review the service entry you just created and check that it contains the correct values:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl get serviceentry mysql-external -o yaml
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
...
</code></pre></li></ol><p>Note that for a TCP service entry, you specify <code>tcp</code> as the protocol of a port of the entry. Also note that you have to
specify the IP of the external service in the list of addresses, as a <a href=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2317>CIDR</a> block
with suffix <code>32</code>.</p><p>I will talk more about TCP service entries
<a href=#service-entries-for-tcp-traffic>below</a>. For now, verify that the service entry we added fixed the problem. Access the
webpage and see if the stars are back.</p><p>It worked! Accessing the web page of the application displays the ratings without error:</p><figure style=width:80%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:36.69064748201439%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/externalMySQLRatings.png title="Book Ratings Displayed Correctly"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-tcp/externalMySQLRatings.png alt="Book Ratings Displayed Correctly"></a></div><figcaption>Book Ratings Displayed Correctly</figcaption></figure><p>Note that you see a one-star rating for both displayed reviews, as expected. You changed the ratings to be one star to
provide us with a visual clue that our external database is indeed being used.</p><p>As with service entries for HTTP/HTTPS, you can delete and create service entries for TCP using <code>kubectl</code>, dynamically.</p><h2 id=motivation-for-egress-tcp-traffic-control>Motivation for egress TCP traffic control</h2><p>Some in-mesh Istio applications must access external services, for example legacy systems. In many cases, the access is
not performed over HTTP or HTTPS protocols. Other TCP protocols are used, such as database-specific protocols like
<a href=https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/mongodb-wire-protocol/>MongoDB Wire Protocol</a> and <a href=https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/client-server-protocol.html>MySQL Client/Server Protocol</a> to communicate with external databases.</p><p>Next let me provide more details about the service entries for TCP traffic.</p><h2 id=service-entries-for-tcp-traffic>Service entries for TCP traffic</h2><p>The service entries for enabling TCP traffic to a specific port must specify <code>TCP</code> as the protocol of the port.
Additionally, for the <a href=https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/mongodb-wire-protocol/>MongoDB Wire Protocol</a>, the
protocol can be specified as <code>MONGO</code>, instead of <code>TCP</code>.</p><p>For the <code>addresses</code> field of the entry, a block of IPs in <a href=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2317>CIDR</a>
notation must be used. Note that the <code>hosts</code> field is ignored for TCP service entries.</p><p>To enable TCP traffic to an external service by its hostname, all the IPs of the hostname must be specified. Each IP
must be specified by a CIDR block.</p><p>Note that all the IPs of an external service are not always known. To enable egress TCP traffic, only the IPs that are
used by the applications must be specified.</p><p>Also note that the IPs of an external service are not always static, for example in the case of
<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network>CDNs</a>. Sometimes the IPs are static most of the time, but can
be changed from time to time, for example due to infrastructure changes. In these cases, if the range of the possible
IPs is known, you should specify the range by CIDR blocks. If the range of the possible IPs is not known, service
entries for TCP cannot be used and
<a href=/v1.7/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#direct-access-to-external-services>the external services must be called directly</a>,
bypassing the sidecar proxies.</p><h2 id=relation-to-virtual-machines-support>Relation to virtual machines support</h2><p>Note that the scenario described in this post is different from the
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/virtual-machines/bookinfo/>Bookinfo with Virtual Machines</a> example. In that scenario, a MySQL instance runs on an
external
(outside the cluster) machine (a bare metal or a VM), integrated with the Istio service mesh. The MySQL service becomes
a first-class citizen of the mesh with all the beneficial features of Istio applicable. Among other things, the service
becomes addressable by a local cluster domain name, for example by <code>mysqldb.vm.svc.cluster.local</code>, and the communication
to it can be secured by
<a href=/v1.7/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication>mutual TLS authentication</a>. There is no need to create a service
entry to access this service; however, the service must be registered with Istio. To enable such integration, Istio
components (<em>Envoy proxy</em>, <em>node-agent</em>, <code>_istio-agent_</code>) must be installed on the machine and the Istio control plane
(<em>Pilot</em>, <em>Mixer</em>, <em>Citadel</em>) must be accessible from it. See the
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/virtual-machines/>Istio VM-related</a> tasks for more details.</p><p>In our case, the MySQL instance can run on any machine or can be provisioned as a service by a cloud provider. There is
no requirement to integrate the machine with Istio. The Istio control plane does not have to be accessible from the
machine. In the case of MySQL as a service, the machine which MySQL runs on may be not accessible and installing on it
the required components may be impossible. In our case, the MySQL instance is addressable by its global domain name,
which could be beneficial if the consuming applications expect to use that domain name. This is especially relevant when
that expected domain name cannot be changed in the deployment configuration of the consuming applications.</p><h2 id=cleanup>Cleanup</h2><ol><li><p>Drop the <code>test</code> database and the <code>bookinfo</code> user:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysqlsh --sql --ssl-mode=REQUIRED -u admin -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;drop database test; drop user bookinfo;&#34;
</code></pre><p><em><strong>OR</strong></em></p><p>For <code>mysql</code> and the local database:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ mysql -u root -p --host $MYSQL_DB_HOST --port $MYSQL_DB_PORT -e &#34;drop database test; drop user bookinfo;&#34;
</code></pre></li><li><p>Remove the virtual services:</p><div><a data-skipendnotes=true style=display:none href=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/networking/virtual-service-ratings-mysql.yaml>Zip</a><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl delete -f @samples/bookinfo/networking/virtual-service-ratings-mysql.yaml@
Deleted config: virtual-service/default/reviews
Deleted config: virtual-service/default/ratings
</code></pre></div></li><li><p>Undeploy <em>ratings v2-mysql</em>:</p><div><a data-skipendnotes=true style=display:none href=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.7/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml>Zip</a><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl delete -f @samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.yaml@
deployment &#34;ratings-v2-mysql&#34; deleted
</code></pre></div></li><li><p>Delete the service entry:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl delete serviceentry mysql-external -n default
Deleted config: serviceentry mysql-external
</code></pre></li></ol><h2 id=conclusion>Conclusion</h2><p>In this blog post, I demonstrated how the microservices in an Istio service mesh can consume external services via TCP.
By default, Istio blocks all the traffic, TCP and HTTP, to the hosts outside the cluster. To enable such traffic for
TCP, TCP mesh-external service entries must be created for the service mesh.</p><nav id=see-also><h2>See also</h2><div class=see-also><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-mongo/>Consuming External MongoDB Services</a></p><p class=desc>Describes a simple scenario based on Istio's Bookinfo example.</p></div><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2019/egress-traffic-control-in-istio-part-3/>Secure Control of Egress Traffic in Istio, part 3</a></p><p class=desc>Comparison of alternative solutions to control egress traffic including performance considerations.</p></div><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2019/egress-traffic-control-in-istio-part-2/>Secure Control of Egress Traffic in Istio, part 2</a></p><p class=desc>Use Istio Egress Traffic Control to prevent attacks involving egress traffic.</p></div><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2019/egress-traffic-control-in-istio-part-1/>Secure Control of Egress Traffic in Istio, part 1</a></p><p class=desc>Attacks involving egress traffic and requirements for egress traffic control.</p></div><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2019/egress-performance/>Egress Gateway Performance Investigation</a></p><p class=desc>Verifies the performance impact of adding an egress gateway.</p></div><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-monitoring-access-control/>Monitoring and Access Policies for HTTP Egress Traffic</a></p><p class=desc>Describes how to configure Istio for monitoring and access policies of HTTP egress traffic.</p></div></div></nav></article><nav class=pagenav><div class=left><a title="An introduction to safer, lower-risk deployments and release to production." href=/v1.7/blog/2018/traffic-mirroring/><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#left-arrow"/></svg>Traffic Mirroring with Istio for Testing in Production</a></div><div class=right><a title="Describes a simple scenario based on Istio's Bookinfo example." href=/v1.7/blog/2018/egress-https/>Consuming External Web Services<svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#right-arrow"/></svg></a></div></nav><div id=feedback><div id=feedback-initial>Was this information useful?<br><button class="btn feedback" onclick="sendFeedback('en',1)">Yes</button>
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