 &ldquo;transparent proxy&rdquo; which can be dropped into an existing cluster, allowing traffic to continue to flow as before.
However, there are powerful ways Istio can manage traffic differently than a typical Kubernetes cluster because of the additional features such as request load balancing.
To understand what is happening in your mesh, it is important to understand how Istio routes traffic.</p><div><aside class="callout warning"><div class=type><svg class="large-icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.12/img/icon