ment, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and deployments
constitute the configuration and state of the system. The Istio configuration objects like gateways and virtual
services, provide the user-authored configuration.
To produce the configuration for the proxies, Istiod processes the combined configuration and system state
from the Kubernetes environment and the user-authored configuration.</p><p>The control plane supports thousands of services, spread across thousands of pods with a
similar number of use