voy proxy sidecars</a> to mediate inbound and outbound traffic for all pods in the service mesh. Istio extracts telemetry from the Envoy sidecars and sends it to Mixer, the Istio component responsible for collecting telemetry and enforcing policy.</p><p>The App Identity and Access adapter extends the Mixer functionality by analyzing the telemetry (attributes) against various access control policies across the service mesh. The access control policies can be linked to a particular Kubernetes services and can