><p>While Istio is platform independent, using it with Kubernetes (or infrastructure) network policies, the benefits are even greater, including the ability to
secure <span class=term data-title=Pod data-body='<p>A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as <a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a> containers),
with shared storage and network, and a specification for how to run the containers.
Pods are the <a href="/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance">workload instances</a> in a
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