ture, we intend for Istio authentication to become a reference implementation of the same.</p><p>The diagram below provides an overview of the Istio&rsquo;s service authentication architecture on Kubernetes.</p><figure style=width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:56.25%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.8/blog/2017/0.1-auth/istio_auth_overview.svg title="Istio Authentication Overview"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.8/blog/2017/0.1-auth/istio_auth_overview.svg alt="Is