
</code></pre><h2 id=verifying-connectivity-to-istiod>Verifying connectivity to Istiod</h2><p>Verifying connectivity to Istiod is a useful troubleshooting step. Every proxy container in the service mesh should be able to communicate with Istiod. This can be accomplished in a few simple steps:</p><ol><li><p>Create a <code>sleep</code> pod:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl create namespace foo
$ kubectl apply -f &lt;(istioctl kube-inject -f samples/sleep/sleep.