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    This doc set is for users of the Gloo Mesh Gateway product to set up an Istio ingress gateway. For users of the Gloo Gateway product to set up an ingress gateway with the Kubernetes Gateway API instead, see the Gloo Gateway docs.

    External auth for APIs

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