Goal: Provide support for services deployed outside of kubernetes to be enlisted within the Service Mesh

Problem: Customers often run services outside of kubernetes
legacy systems they need to integrate with or are still in the process of migrating to kubernetes
Services which need to remain in their own environment for performance/security considerations

Why is this important: Provide customers with the benefits of the Service Mesh capabilities when integrating external services within the mesh.

Dependencies (internal and external):

• Upstream Istio provide this capability

Prioritized epics + deliverables (in scope / not in scope):

• Productise upstream Istio components necessary for supporting external services within the service mesh and document the procedure to include these external workloads as part of OSSM