ss/egress-control/>Accessing external services</a></li><li><a href=/v1.9/docs/tasks/observability/kiali/>Visualizing your mesh</a></li></ul><p>Before you customize Istio for production use, see these resources:</p><ul><li><a href=/v1.9/docs/ops/deployment/deployment-models/>Deployment models</a></li><li><a href=/v1.9/docs/ops/best-practices/deployment/>Deployment best practices</a></li><li><a href=/v1.9/docs/ops/deployment/requirements/>Pod requirements</a></li><li><a href=/v1.9/docs/setup/>General installa