tackdriver for
metrics, we recommend you try out the new mode and see how much your performance
improves.</p><p>You can keep Mixer installed and enabled if you need it. Eventually Mixer will
become a separately released add-on to Istio that is part of the
<a href=https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/>istio-ecosystem</a>.</p><h2 id=fewer-moving-parts>Fewer moving parts</h2><p>We are also simplifying the deployment of the rest of the control plane. To
that end, we combined several of the control plane component