o-ca). Note that these components are stateless and can be scaled horizontally. Each of these components depends on the Istio API server, which in turn depends on the etcd cluster for persistence. To achieve high availability, each control plane service could be run as a <a href="https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification/index.html">job</a> in Nomad, where the <a href="https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification/service.html">service stanza</a> can be used to describe the desired properties 