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From here you can learn all about Istio's architecture and how to deploy and use Istio.

- [Concepts]({{home}}/docs/concepts/). Concepts explain some significant aspect of Istio. This
is where you can learn about what Istio does and how it does it.

- [Setup]({{home}}/docs/setup/). Setup contains instructions for installing
  the Istio control plane in various environments, as well as instructions
  for installing the sidecar in the application deployment. Quick start
  instructions are available for
  [Kubernetes]({{home}}/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start.html) and
  [Docker Compose w/ Consul]({{home}}/docs/setup/consul/quick-start.html).

- [Tasks]({{home}}/docs/tasks/). Tasks show you how to do a single directed activity with Istio.

- [Guides]({{home}}/docs/guides/). Guides are fully working stand-alone examples
intended to highlight a particular set of Istio's features.

- [Reference]({{home}}/docs/reference/). Detailed exhaustive lists of
command-line options, configuration options, API definitions, and procedures.

We're always looking for help improving our documentation, so please don't hesitate to
[file an issue](https://github.com/istio/istio.github.io/issues/new) if you see some problem.
Or better yet, submit your own [contributions]({{home}}/about/contribute/editing.html) to help
make our docs better.

Follow this link for the archive of the [earlier releases' documentation](https://archive.istio.io/).