stallation time.</p><p>Istio provides official mirrors to <a href=https://gcr.io/istio-release>Google Container Registry</a>. This can be configured with <code>--set hub=gcr.io/istio-release</code>. This is available for Istio 1.5+.</p><p>Alternatively, you can copy the official Istio images to your own registry. This is especially useful if your cluster runs in an environment with a registry tailored for your use case (for example, on AWS you may want to mirror images to Amazon ECR) or you have air gapped 