le to any of the workloads in the mesh as well.</p><h2 id=simplicity-of-operations-is-better-for-security>Simplicity of operations is better for security</h2><p>Ultimately, Istio is a critical piece of infrastructure that must be maintained. Istio is trusted to implement some of the tenets of zero-trust network security on behalf of applications and rolling out patches on a schedule or on demand is paramount. Platform teams often have predictable patching or maintenance cycles which is quite different from 