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# Home

Welcome to Istio's documentation home page. From here you can learn all about Istio by following
the links below:

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

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

- [Tutorials]({{site.bareurl}}/docs/tutorials). Tutorials are more involved, composing many individual tasks together
to show you how to perform more complex activities.

- [Samples]({{site.bareurl}}/docs/samples). Samples are fully working stand-alone examples
intended to highlight a particular set of Istio's features.

- [Reference]({{site.bareurl}}/docs/reference). Detailed exhaustive list of
command-line options, configuration options, and API definitions.

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]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/home/contribute/editing.html) to help
make our docs better.