it-of-consolidation-introducing-istiod>The benefit of consolidation: introducing istiod</h2><p>Having established that many of the common benefits of microservices didn&rsquo;t apply to the Istio control plane, we decided to unify them into a single binary: <strong>istiod</strong> (the &rsquo;d&rsquo; is for <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computing%29>daemon</a>).</p><p>Let&rsquo;s look at the benefits of the new packaging:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Installation becomes easier.</strong> Fewer K