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Document Ambient Egress Gateways

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#17,114 opened on Jan 28, 2026

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good first issue

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Description

Solo has a good blog post and @howardjohn discusses it in his personal blog, but we don't actually have any official istio docs showing how to do egress gateways with waypoints in ambient. This is a missed opportunity to show how much simpler ambient is in our official documentation

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Research direction
Study the existing blog posts and internal implementation to document how to configure egress gateways with waypoints in ambient mode.
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infrastructure
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
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65