patibility-with-other-cni-plugins>Compatibility with other CNI plugins</a></ol></li><li role=none aria-label="See also"><a href=#see-also>See also</a></li></ol><hr></div></nav><p>Follow this guide to install, configure, and use an Istio mesh using the Istio Container Network Interface
(<a href=https://github.com/containernetworking/cni#cni---the-container-network-interface>CNI</a>)
plugin.</p><p>By default Istio injects an <code>initContainer</code>, <code>istio-init</code>, in pods deployed in
the mesh. Th