Transparency</strong>. To adopt Istio an operator or developer should be required to do the minimum amount of work possible to get real value from the system. To this end Istio can automatically inject itself into all the network paths between services. Istio uses sidecar proxies to capture traffic and where possible automatically program the networking layer to route traffic through those proxies without any changes to the deployed application code. In Kubernetes the proxies are injected into pods and traf