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Istio VirtualService: centralizing CORS policies across revisions and namespaces
Mesh gateways can enforce CORS before traffic reaches language-specific services, reducing duplicated EnvoyFilter YAML.
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istiokubernetesservice-meshcors
Gateway versus sidecar
Ingress gateways are the natural place for browser-facing CORS; sidecars can stay minimal for east-west.
If both apply, document precedence—double Access-Control-* headers confuse browsers unpredictably.
GitOps
Lint VirtualService for invalid regex in allowed origins before merge.
Alert on drift between staging and production header sets.
