a new istiod version alongside your existing control plane, canary it, and then move all traffic over to it.</p></li><li><p><strong>Scalability becomes easier.</strong> There is now only one component to scale.</p></li><li><p><strong>Debugging becomes easier.</strong> Fewer components means less cross-component environmental debugging.</p></li><li><p><strong>Startup time goes down.</strong> Components no longer need to wait for each other to start in a defined order.</p></li><li><p><strong>Resource usage go