s.svg#callout-warning"/></svg></div><div class=content>This document describes low level implementation details. For a higher level overview, check out the traffic management <a href=/v1.12/docs/concepts/traffic-management/>Concepts</a> or <a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/traffic-management/>Tasks</a>.</div></aside></div><h2 id=protocols>Protocols</h2><p>Unlike Kubernetes, Istio has the ability to process application level protocols such as HTTP and TLS.
In general, there are three classes of protocols Istio under