tom policy and telemetry support and Envoy extensions allowing data
plane customization. In Istio 1.5 we’re announcing a new model that unifies
Istio’s extensibility model with Envoy’s, using
<a href=https://webassembly.org/>WebAssembly</a> (Wasm). Wasm will give developers the
ability to safely distribute and execute code in the Envoy proxy &ndash; to integrate
with telemetry systems, policy systems, control routing and even transform the
body of a message. It will be more flexible and more efficient