stio’s traditional model deploys Envoy proxies as sidecars within the workloads’ pods"></a></div><figcaption>Istio’s traditional model deploys Envoy proxies as sidecars within the workloads’ pods</figcaption></figure><p>Although sidecars have significant advantages over refactoring applications, they do not provide a perfect separation between applications and the Istio data plane. This results in a few limitations:</p><ul><li><strong>Invasiveness</strong> - Sidecars must be &ldquo;injected&rdquo; i