o disable mutual TLS:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl edit configmap -n istio-system istio
$ kubectl delete pods -n istio-system -l istio=pilot
</code></pre><p>Next, scale down the <code>istio-citadel</code> deployment to disable Envoy restarts:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl scale --replicas=0 deploy/istio-citadel -n istio-system
</code></pre><p>This should stop Istio from restarting Envoy and disconnecting