th its centralized control plane and identity-based approach, streamlines configuration and reduces the burden on your API server and nodes, directing critical resources to processing and securing your traffic, rather than processing configuration. Istio takes further advantage of the resources not used in the control plane by running as many Envoy instances as a workload needs, while Cilium is limited to one shared Envoy instance per node.</li></ul><h2 id=digging-deeper>Digging Deeper</h2><p>While the obje