ncing, service-to-service authentication, monitoring, and more - all
without any changes to the application code. Istio strives to provide
these benefits with minimal resource overhead and aims to support very
large meshes with high request rates while adding minimal latency.</p><p>The Istio data plane components, the Envoy proxies, handle data flowing through
the system. The Istio control plane component, Istiod, configures
the data plane. The data plane and control plane have distinct performance concerns