nfiguration for the proxies, Istiod processes the combined configuration and system state
from the Kubernetes environment and the user-authored configuration.</p><p>The control plane supports thousands of services, spread across thousands of pods with a
similar number of user authored virtual services and other configuration objects.
Istiod&rsquo;s CPU and memory requirements scale with the amount of configurations and possible system states.
The CPU consumption scales with the following factors:</p><ul><li