Connect: Provide a dev proxy that can route to cluster via mesh-gateway

[banks]

Mesh-gateway enables an easy way to have shared dev clusters that can be accessed from services running locally on dev laptops.

This is pretty speculative but has been requested by a few people so capturing the request here.

This would involve running a local proxy in a similar way to out built-in one allows for simple connection to consul services at L4.

A L7 dev proxy though could:

• use Envoy as implementation (for supported OSes, ideally via Docker as we have no binaries outside docker)
• a single proxy could listen for HTTP(2) traffic and use hostnames like foo.service.consul.local to route traffic to that service running in a shared cluster upstream via their mesh-gateway. In a sense the devs laptop would be like an instance in another DC but without having to run their own DC and federate it over WAN with correct encryption setup etc.

[stale]

Hey there,
We wanted to check in on this request since it has been inactive for at least 60 days.
If you think this is still an important issue in the latest version of Consul
or its documentation please reply with a comment here which will cause it to stay open for investigation.
If there is still no activity on this issue for 30 more days, we will go ahead and close it.

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Thank you!