20, and we&rsquo;re excited to announce some
great progress here.</p><p>For those of you who are adding non-Kubernetes workloads to meshes (for
example, workloads deployed on VMs), the new
<a href=/v1.24/docs/reference/config/networking/workload-entry/><code>WorkloadEntry</code></a> resource
makes that easier than ever. We created this API to give non-Kubernetes
workloads first-class representation in Istio. It elevates a VM or bare metal
workload to the same level as a Kubernetes <code>Pod</code>, instead 