><p>You can use Istio&rsquo;s
<a href=/v1.26/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#introducing-istio-traffic-management>Traffic Management API</a>
to instruct Istiod to refine the Envoy configuration to exercise more granular control
over the traffic in your service mesh.</p><p>Istiod <a href=/v1.26/docs/concepts/security/>security</a> enables strong service-to-service and
end-user authentication with built-in identity and credential management. You
can use Istio to upgrade unencrypted traffic in the service me