mote-cluster.svg title="CLI without local access to istiod pods"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.21/blog/2022/istioctl-proxy/istioctl-remote-cluster.svg alt="CLI without local access to istiod pods"></a></div><figcaption>CLI without local access to istiod pods</figcaption></figure><p>An Istio Ecosystem project that includes an implementation of such an <code>istioctl</code> proxy server can be found
<a href=https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/istioctl-proxy-sample>here</a>. To try it out, you&rsquo;ll 