he core principles that guide Istio’s design.</p><p>Istio’s architecture is informed by a few key design goals that are essential to making the system capable of dealing with services at scale and with high performance.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Maximize Transparency</strong>. To adopt Istio, an operator or developer should be required to do the minimum amount of work possible to get real value from the system. To this end, Istio can automatically inject itself into all the network paths between services. I