Outbound external HTTPS traffic is failing in Kubernetes

The Problem

Several issues in Istio refer to errors encountered for HTTPS traffic from a pod to a destination outside the cluster

These errors were encountered:

*ssl_client: : handshake failed: error:1400410B:SSL routines:CONNECT_CR_SRVR_HELLO:wrong version number

Solution

Change the name of the service in the pod to begin with 'https'.