the sidecar proxies.</p><h2 id=relation-to-virtual-machines-support>Relation to virtual machines support</h2><p>Note that the scenario described in this post is different from the
<a href=/v1.10/docs/examples/virtual-machines/>Bookinfo with Virtual Machines</a> example. In that scenario, a MySQL instance runs on an
external
(outside the cluster) machine (a bare metal or a VM), integrated with the Istio service mesh. The MySQL service becomes
a first-class citizen of the mesh with all the beneficial features