{CTX_REMOTE_CLUSTER}&#34;
Error: unable to find any Istiod instances
</code></pre><h2 id=configure-istioctl-to-use-the-sample-proxy-service>Configure istioctl to use the sample proxy service</h2><p>To configure <code>istioctl</code>, we first need to deploy the proxy service next to the running <code>istiod</code> pods.
In our installation, we&rsquo;ve deployed the control plane in the <code>external-istiod</code> namespace, so we start the proxy
service on the external cluster using the following command:<