ce of a service</li><li>Ensuring requests are routed through the sidecars</li></ol><h2 id="setting-up-the-control-plane">Setting up the Control Plane</h2><p>Istio control plane consists of four main services: Pilot, Mixer, CA, and the API server.</p><h3 id="api-server">API Server</h3><p>Istio’s API server (based on Kubernetes’ API server) provides key functions such as configuration management and Role-Based Access Control. The API server requires an <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-g