-content><h1>Demystifying Istio's Sidecar Injection Model</h1><p>De-mystify how Istio manages to plugin its data-plane components into an existing deployment.</p></div><p class=post-author>Jan 31, 2019 <span>|</span> By Manish Chugtu</p><div><p>A simple overview of an Istio service-mesh architecture always starts with describing the control-plane and data-plane.</p><p><a href=/v1.15/docs/ops/deployment/architecture/>From Istio’s documentation</a>:</p><div><aside class="callout quote"><div class=type><svg 