 integrates
with Kubernetes. To reduce the complexity of deployments Istio provides
behavioral insights and operational control over the service mesh as a whole.
See the <a href=/v1.7/docs/ops/deployment/architecture/>Istio Architecture</a> for more details.</p><p>Istio uses <a href=/v1.7/blog/2019/data-plane-setup/>Envoy proxy sidecars</a> to mediate inbound and outbound traffic for all pods in the service mesh. Istio extracts telemetry from the Envoy sidecars and sends it to Mixer, the Istio component res