iod in an external control plane cluster</figcaption></figure><p>Mesh operators can further expand this deployment model to manage multiple Istio control planes from an external cluster running multiple Istiod control planes:</p><figure style=width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:45.55366354432676%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.11/blog/2020/new-deployment-model/multiple-external-Istiods.svg title="Multiple single clusters Istio meshes with Istiod outside"><img class=el