io’s approach to API design followed paths similar to those of other infrastructure APIs. Istio follows these design principles:</p><ol><li>The Istio APIs should seek to:<ul><li>Properly represent the underlying resources to which they are mapped</li><li>Shouldn’t hide any of the underlying resource’s useful capabilities</li></ul></li><li>The Istio APIs should also be <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composability>composable</a>, so end users can combine infrastructure APIs in a way that makes se