f all these things will be just as simple in your real production environment.</p><p>Fortunately, Istio provides several ways to configure a service mesh so that applications
can, more-or-less transparently, be part of a mesh where the services are running
in more than one cluster, i.e., in a
<a href=/v1.3/docs/concepts/deployment-models/#multiple-clusters>multi-cluster deployment</a>.
The simplest way to setup a multi-cluster mesh, because it has no special networking requirements,
is using a replicated
<a