me issues:</p><ul><li>The Istio addon installations were not as up to date or feature rich as upstream installation methods. Users were left missing out on some of the great features provided by these applications, such as:<ul><li>Persistent storage</li><li>Features like <code>Alertmanager</code> for Prometheus</li><li>Advanced security settings</li></ul></li><li>Integration with existing deployments that were using these features was more challenging than it should be.</li></ul><h2 id=changes>Changes</h2><