ands don&rsquo;t work out of the box on a remote cluster managed
by an external control plane. Commands such as <code>istioctl proxy-status</code>, among others, need access to the <code>istiod</code> service
instances managing the mesh, which are unavailable when the control plane is running outside of the mesh cluster.
To address this issue, <code>istioctl</code> was configured to delegate to a proxy server, running along side the external control
plane, which accesses the <code>istiod</code> instances on