 application pods.</p><p>Because Istio and related K8S objects are relatively complex to configure, Splunk created an abstraction layer, which is a controller that configures everything for the service, including virtual services, destination rules, gateways, certificates, and more. It sets up DNS that goes directly to the right NLB. It&rsquo;s a one-click solution for end-to-end network deployment. For more complex use cases, the services teams can still bypass the abstraction and configure these settings 