tio sidecar can automatically be injected into a pod upon deployment using the
<a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/extensible-admission-controllers/>Initializers</a> alpha feature in Kubernetes.</p></li></ul><h3 id=performance-and-quality>Performance and quality</h3><p>There have been many performance and reliability improvements throughout the system. We don’t consider Istio 0.2 ready for production yet, but
we’ve made excellent progress in that direction. Here are a few ite