r authored virtual services and other configuration objects.
Istiod&rsquo;s CPU and memory requirements scale with the amount of configurations and possible system states.
The CPU consumption scales with the following factors:</p><ul><li>The rate of deployment changes.</li><li>The rate of configuration changes.</li><li>The number of proxies connecting to Istiod.</li></ul><p>however this part is inherently horizontally scalable.</p><p>When <a href=/v1.20/docs/reference/config/networking/sidecar/>namespace is