te of both. The service mesh is a fully interconnected set of
proxies that are utilized in both the control and data plane to provide
the Istio features.</p><p>Another key concept to understand is how Istio performs traffic management.
This is described in <a href=/v1.0/docs/concepts/traffic-management>Traffic Management Explained</a>.
Traffic management allows fine grained control with respect to what external
traffic can enter or exit the mesh and how those requests are routed. The
traffic management conf