I with local access to istiod pods</figcaption></figure><p>When using a remote cluster, on the other hand, this is not possible since the <code>istiod</code> instances are running outside
of the mesh cluster and not accessible to the mesh user. The instances may not even be deployed using pods on a Kubernetes
cluster.</p><p>Fortunately, <code>istioctl</code> provides a configuration option to address this issue.
You can configure <code>istioctl</code> with the address of an external proxy service that will 