 it correctly displays the sync status of all the services running in the mesh. Notice that the
<code>ISTIOD</code> column returns the generic value <code>&lt;external></code>, instead of the instance name (e.g., <code>istiod-666fb6694d-jklkt</code>)
that would be displayed if the pod was running locally. In this case, this detail is not available, or needed, by the
mesh user. It&rsquo;s only available on the external cluster for the mesh operator to see.</p><h2 id=summary>Summary</h2><p>In this article, we