.</p><h2 id=performance-summary-for-istio-120>Performance summary for Istio 1.20</h2><p>The <a href=https://github.com/istio/tools/tree/release-1.20/perf/load>Istio load tests</a> mesh consists
of <strong>1000</strong> services and <strong>2000</strong> sidecars with 70,000 mesh-wide requests per second.</p><h2 id=control-plane-performance>Control plane performance</h2><p>Istiod configures sidecar proxies based on user authored configuration files and the current
state of the system. In a Kubernetes environ