vices. The external control plane reads Istio configurations from the <code>config cluster</code> and Istiod pushes configuration to the data plane running in both the config cluster and other remote clusters as shown in the diagram below.</p><figure style=width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:44.93126790115233%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.20/blog/2020/new-deployment-model/multiple-clusters-external-Istiod.svg title="Multicluster Istio mesh with Istiod outside"><img 