</a></p><p>The simplest and most qualified installation and management path with high security.
This is the community recommended method for most use cases.</p><p>Pros:</p><ul><li>Thorough configuration validation and health verification.</li><li>Uses the <code>IstioOperator</code> API which provides extensive configuration/customization options.</li><li>No in-cluster privileged pods needed. Changes are actuated by running the <code>istioctl</code> command.</li></ul><p>Cons:</p><ul><li>Multiple binaries mus