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cluster.</p><p>Fortunately, <code>istioctl</code> provides a configuration option to address this issue.
You can configure <code>istioctl</code> with the address of an external proxy service that will have access to the
<code>istiod</code> instances. Unlike an ordinary load-balancer service, which would delegate incoming requests to one of the
instances, this proxy service must instead delegate to all of the <code>istiod</code> instances, aggregate the responses,
and then return the combined result.</p><p