 go together, but Istio is much more than an add-on to Kubernetes – it is as much a <em>platform</em> as Kubernetes is. Istio aims to provide infrastructure, and surface the capabilities you need in a powerful service mesh. For example, there are platform-as-a-service offerings that use Kubernetes as their foundation, and build on Kubernetes’ composability to provide a subset of APIs to application developers.</p><p>The number of objects that must be configured to deploy applications is a concrete examp