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

- [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.

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

- [Samples]({{home}}/docs/samples/). Samples 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}}/docs/reference/contribute/editing.html) to help
make our docs better.