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Add an explanation that Chiron is linked with Pilot (#5609)

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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In certain deployments, you may want to use your own certificate authority
instead of Citadel. In those cases, Citadel ends up being used strictly for instead of Citadel. In those cases, Citadel ends up being used strictly for
its DNS certificate provisioning functionality. Rather than having to deploy its DNS certificate provisioning functionality. Rather than having to deploy
Citadel at all in this case, you can instead leverage Chiron, a lightweight Citadel at all in this case, you can instead leverage Chiron, a lightweight
component that signs certificates using the Kubernetes CA APIs without maintaining its own private key. component linked with Pilot that signs certificates using the Kubernetes CA APIs without maintaining its own private key.
This task shows how to provision and manage DNS certificates for Istio control This task shows how to provision and manage DNS certificates for Istio control
plane components through Chiron. Using this feature has the following advantages: plane components through Chiron. Using this feature has the following advantages: