    &lt;external&gt;     1.12.1
sleep-557747455f-v627d.sample                             SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     &lt;external&gt;     1.12.1
</code></pre><p>As you can see, this time it correctly displays the sync status of all the services running in the mesh. Notice that the
<code>ISTIOD</code> column returns the generic value <code>&lt;external></code>, instead of the instance name (e.g., <code>istiod-666fb6694d-jklkt</code>)
that would be displayed if the pod was running locally. In