implement-istio-traffic-management-features>Setup: why implement Istio traffic management features?</h2><p>Of course, the first question is: Why would you want to do this?</p><p>If you’re part of one of the many organizations out there that have a large cluster with lots of teams deploying, the answer is pretty clear. Let’s say Team A is getting started with Istio and wants to start some canary deployments on Service A, but Team B hasn’t started using Istio, so they don’t have sidecars deployed.</p>