/v1.8/img/icons.svg#callout-warning"/></svg></div><div class=content>This vendor-provided document has not been tested on the Istio 1.8 release and may contain bugs.</div></aside></div><p>Follow these instructions to prepare an Azure cluster for Istio.</p><p>You can deploy a Kubernetes cluster to Azure via <a href=https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/>AKS</a> or <a href=https://github.com/azure/aks-engine>AKS-Engine</a> which fully supports Istio.</p><h2 id=aks>AKS</h2><p>You can cr