leration between Envoy sidecars on the same node can be achieved directly through inbound traffic processing. However, Envoy will raise an error when accessing the application of the current pod in this scenario.</p><p>In Istio, Envoy accesses the application by using the current pod IP and port number. With the above scenario, we realized that the pod IP exists in the <code>local_pod_ips</code> map as well, and the traffic will be redirected to the pod IP on port 15006 again because it is the same address 