service mesh

Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloudinfoq.com

Istio 1.31 adds a Rust‑based agentgateway waypoint proxy for ambient meshes and introduces traffic‑shifting canary labels, zone‑aware load‑balancing, and dynamic DNS outbound mode. It also retires Google‑hosted image and Helm repositories, requiring users to migrate before the October outage.