ile the agent, strictly speaking, is still part of the control plane, it runs on a per-pod basis. We’ve further simplified by rolling per-node functionality that used to run as a DaemonSet, into that per-pod agent.</p><h2 id=extra-for-experts>Extra for experts</h2><p>There will still be some cases where you might want to run Istio components independently, or replace certain components.</p><p>Some users might want to use a Certificate Authority (CA) outside the mesh, and we have <a href=/v1.10/docs/tasks/