KVM v/s Target Servers

[surbhijain]

how using KVMs for storing target URLs is a sub-optimal practice as compared to using TargetServers .I need some clarifcation on this point

[strebel]

I'd say it depends. If you have a very complicated logic to determine your target URL or maybe even need to dynamically compose them based on some custom logic then storing them in a KVM or deriving them from API policies can definitely be a viable option.

Here is a list of advantages of TargetServers:
* Existence of referenced TargetServers are validated at deploytime
* Changes can be audited easily whilst KVMs can dynamically be changed at runtime.
* TargetServers allow you to configure TLS (e.g. Truststore) and mTLS specific to a server
* TargetServers support basic load balancing across multiple backends