sh. Using
Istio, operators can enforce policies based on service identity rather than
on relatively unstable layer 3 or layer 4 network identifiers.
Additionally, you can use <a href=/v1.26/docs/concepts/security/#authorization>Istio&rsquo;s authorization feature</a>
to control who can access your services.</p><p>Istiod acts as a Certificate Authority (CA) and generates certificates to allow
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