, each Istiod manages its own remote cluster(s). Mesh operators can even install their own Istio mesh in the external control plane cluster and configure its <code>istio-ingress</code> gateway to route traffic from remote clusters to their corresponding Istiod control planes. To learn more about this, check out <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/wiki/External-Istiod-single-cluster-steps#deploy-istio-mesh-on-external-control-plane-cluster-to-manage-traffic-to-istiod-deployments>these steps</a>.</p><h2 id