>If the external proxy service is, in fact, running on another Kubernetes cluster, the proxy implementation code
can be very similar to the implementation code that <code>istioctl</code> runs in the primary cluster case, i.e., find all of the
running <code>istiod</code> pods, call each one in turn, and then aggregate the result.</p><figure style=width:75%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:68.64155561599131%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.21/blog/2022/istioctl-proxy/istioctl-re