Configuring external services with Istio's ServiceEntry

In this live stream, we'll talk about Istio's ServiceEntry resource and show how to add additional entries to Istio's internal service registry. ServiceEntry is useful when you want to add external services into the mesh or when you want to add services that Kubernetes do not manage.
Link to demo: github.com/sol...

[@chandrasekharkolla9879]

What is the need to do a port forward for Kiali as we have istioctl installed, can't we just do istioctl dashboard kiali instead? What is the difference between these two methods of accessing the Kiali dashboard? Is it the same or anything different if we access in one way than the other?

[@learncloudnative]

Hi! Yes, you can do istioctl dashboard kiali (which underneath does the port-forward command); in the end it works more or less the same. If you wanted to make this accessible to internal users for example, you'd expose the Kiali service through your ingress API gateway.