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or production use." href=/v1.5/docs/setup/install/helm/>Customizable Install with Helm</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Instructions to install Istio in a Kubernetes cluster using the Istio operator." href=/v1.5/docs/setup/install/standalone-operator/>Standalone Operator Install</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Multicluster Installation"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Configure an Istio mesh spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters." href=/v1.5/docs/setup/install/multicluster/>Multicluster Installation</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Install an Istio mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters with replicated control plane instances." href=/v1.5/docs/setup/install/multicluster/gateways/>Replicated control planes</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Install an Istio mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters with a shared control plane." 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xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#tasks"/></svg>Tasks</button><div class=body aria-labelledby=card77 role=region id=card77-body><ul role=tree aria-expanded=true aria-labelledby=card77><li role=treeitem aria-label="Traffic Management"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Tasks that demonstrate Istio's traffic routing features." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/>Traffic Management</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure dynamic request routing to multiple versions of a microservice." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-routing/>Request Routing</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to inject faults to test the resiliency of your application." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/fault-injection/>Fault Injection</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to migrate traffic from an old to new version of a service." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/traffic-shifting/>Traffic Shifting</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to migrate TCP traffic from an old to new version of a TCP service." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/tcp-traffic-shifting/>TCP Traffic Shifting</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to setup request timeouts in Envoy using Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-timeouts/>Request Timeouts</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure circuit breaking for connections, requests, and outlier detection." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/circuit-breaking/>Circuit Breaking</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task demonstrates the traffic mirroring/shadowing capabilities of Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/mirroring/>Mirroring</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Ingress><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Controlling ingress traffic for an Istio service mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/>Ingress</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure an Istio gateway to expose a service outside of the service mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/ingress-control/>Ingress Gateways</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Expose a service outside of the service mesh over TLS or mTLS using file-mounted certificates." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/secure-ingress-mount/>Secure Gateways (File Mount)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Expose a service outside of the service mesh over TLS or mTLS using the secret discovery service (SDS)." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/secure-ingress-sds/>Secure Gateways (SDS)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure SNI passthrough for an ingress gateway." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/ingress-sni-passthrough/>Ingress Gateway without TLS Termination</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Demonstrates how to obtain Let's Encrypt TLS certificates for Kubernetes Ingress automatically using Cert-Manager." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/ingress-certmgr/>Kubernetes Ingress with Cert-Manager</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Egress><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Controlling egress traffic for an Istio service mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/>Egress</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure Istio to route traffic from services in the mesh to external services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/>Accessing External Services</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure Istio to perform TLS origination for traffic to external services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-tls-origination/>Egress TLS Origination</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure Istio to direct traffic to external services through a dedicated gateway." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-gateway/>Egress Gateways</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure an Egress Gateway to perform TLS origination to external services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-gateway-tls-origination/>Egress Gateways with TLS Origination</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to enable egress traffic for a set of hosts in a common domain, instead of configuring each and every host separately." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/wildcard-egress-hosts/>Egress using Wildcard Hosts</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure SNI monitoring and apply policies on TLS egress traffic." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress_sni_monitoring_and_policies/>Monitoring and Policies for TLS Egress with Mixer (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to configure Istio to let applications use an external HTTPS proxy." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/http-proxy/>Using an External HTTPS Proxy</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to configure Istio for Kubernetes External Services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-kubernetes-services/>Kubernetes Services for Egress Traffic</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Security><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates how to secure the mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/>Security</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=treeitem aria-label=Authentication><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Controlling mutual TLS and end-user authentication for mesh services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authentication/>Authentication</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to use Istio authentication policy to setup mutual TLS and basic end-user authentication." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authentication/authn-policy/>Authentication Policy</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to incrementally migrate your Istio services to mutual TLS." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authentication/mtls-migration/>Mutual TLS Migration</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Authorization><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Shows how to control access to Istio services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/>Authorization</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to set up access control for HTTP traffic." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-http/>Authorization for HTTP traffic</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to set up access control for TCP traffic." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-tcp/>Authorization for TCP traffic</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to set up access control with JWT in Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-jwt/>Authorization with JWT</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to set up access control to deny traffic explicitly." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-deny/>Authorization policies with a deny action</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to set up access control on an ingress gateway." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-ingress/>Authorization on Ingress Gateway</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to migrate from one trust domain to another without changing authorization policy." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/authorization/authz-td-migration/>Authorization Policy Trust Domain Migration</a></li></ul></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how system administrators can configure Istio's CA with an existing root certificate, signing certificate and key." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/plugin-ca-cert/>Plugging in existing CA Certificates</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to provision and manage DNS certificates in Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/security/dns-cert/>Istio DNS Certificate Management</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Policies><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates policy enforcement features." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/>Policies</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to enable Istio policy enforcement." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/enabling-policy/>Enabling Policy Enforcement (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to use Istio to dynamically limit the traffic to a service." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/rate-limiting/>Enabling Rate Limits (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to control access to a service using simple denials or white/black listing." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/denial-and-list/>Denials and White/Black Listing (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to modify request headers and routing using policy adapters." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/policy-enforcement/control-headers/>Control Headers and Routing (Deprecated)</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Observability><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates how to collect telemetry information from the mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/>Observability</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=treeitem aria-label=Metrics><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates the collection and querying of metrics within Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/metrics/>Metrics</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Istio to collect metrics for TCP services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/metrics/tcp-metrics/>Collecting Metrics for TCP Services</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to query for Istio Metrics using Prometheus." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/metrics/querying-metrics/>Querying Metrics from Prometheus</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to setup and use the Istio Dashboard to monitor mesh traffic." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/metrics/using-istio-dashboard/>Visualizing Metrics with Grafana</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Logs><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates the collection of logs within Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/logs/>Logs</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Envoy proxies to print access logs to their standard output." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/logs/access-log/>Getting Envoy's Access Logs</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Distributed Tracing"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="This task shows you how to configure Istio-enabled applications to collect trace spans." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/>Distributed Tracing</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Overview of distributed tracing in Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/overview/>Overview</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Learn how to configure the proxies to send tracing requests to Jaeger." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/jaeger/>Jaeger</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Learn how to configure the proxies to send tracing requests to Zipkin." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/zipkin/>Zipkin</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to configure the proxies to send tracing requests to LightStep." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/lightstep/>LightStep</a></li></ul></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to visualize your services within an Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/kiali/>Visualizing Your Mesh</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure external access to the set of Istio telemetry addons." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/gateways/>Remotely Accessing Telemetry Addons</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Using Mixer for Telemetry (deprecated)"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates how to collect telemetry information from the mesh using Mixer." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/>Using Mixer for Telemetry (deprecated)</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=treeitem aria-label=Metrics><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates the configuration, collection, and processing of Istio mesh metrics using Mixer." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/metrics/>Metrics</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Istio's Mixer to collect and customize metrics." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/metrics/collecting-metrics/>Collecting Metrics With Mixer</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Istio's Mixer to collect metrics for TCP services." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/metrics/tcp-metrics/>Collecting Metrics for TCP services with Mixer</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Logs><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Demonstrates the configuration, collection, and processing of Istio mesh logs." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/logs/>Logs</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Istio's Mixer to collect and customize logs." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/logs/collecting-logs/>Collecting Logs with Mixer</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="This task shows you how to configure Istio's Mixer to log to a Fluentd daemon." href=/v1.5/docs/tasks/observability/mixer/logs/fluentd/>Logging with Mixer and Fluentd</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></div><div class=card><button class="header dynamic" id=card92 title="A variety of fully working example uses for Istio that you can experiment with." aria-controls=card92-body><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#examples"/></svg>Examples</button><div class=body aria-labelledby=card92 role=region id=card92-body><ul role=tree aria-expanded=true aria-labelledby=card92><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Deploys a sample application composed of four separate microservices used to demonstrate various Istio features." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo Application</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Virtual Machines"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Examples that add workloads running on virtual machines to an Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/virtual-machines/>Virtual Machines</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Learn how to add a service running on a virtual machine to your single network Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/virtual-machines/single-network/>Virtual Machines in Single-Network Meshes</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Learn how to add a service running on a virtual machine to your multi-network Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/virtual-machines/multi-network/>Virtual Machines in Multi-Network Meshes</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Run the Bookinfo application with a MySQL service running on a virtual machine within your mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/virtual-machines/bookinfo/>Bookinfo with a Virtual Machine</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Learn Microservices using Kubernetes and Istio"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="This modular tutorial provides new users with hands-on experience using Istio for common microservices scenarios, one step at a time." href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/>Learn Microservices using Kubernetes and Istio</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/prereq/>Prerequisites</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/setup-kubernetes-cluster/>Setup a Kubernetes Cluster</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/setup-local-computer/>Setup a Local Computer</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/single/>Run a Microservice Locally</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/package-service/>Run ratings in Docker</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/bookinfo-kubernetes/>Run Bookinfo with Kubernetes</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/production-testing/>Test in production</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/add-new-microservice-version/>Add a new version of reviews</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/add-istio/>Enable Istio on productpage</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/enable-istio-all-microservices/>Enable Istio on all the microservices</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/istio-ingress-gateway/>Configure Istio Ingress Gateway</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/examples/microservices-istio/logs-istio/>Monitoring with Istio</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div><div class=card><button class="header dynamic" id=card113 title="Concepts, tools, and techniques to deploy and manage an Istio mesh." aria-controls=card113-body><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#guide"/></svg>Operations</button><div class=body aria-labelledby=card113 role=region id=card113-body><ul role=tree aria-expanded=true aria-labelledby=card113><li role=treeitem aria-label=Deployment><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Requirements, concepts, and considerations for setting up an Istio deployment." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/>Deployment</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes Istio's high-level architecture and design goals." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/architecture/>Architecture</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the options and considerations when configuring your Istio deployment." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/deployment-models/>Deployment Models</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio performance and scalability summary." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/performance-and-scalability/>Performance and Scalability</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Prepare your Kubernetes pods and services to run in an Istio-enabled cluster." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/requirements/>Pods and Services</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Configuration><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Advanced concepts and features for configuring a running Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/>Configuration</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=treeitem aria-label="Mesh Configuration"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Helps you manage the global mesh configuration." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/>Mesh Configuration</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Provides a general overview of Istio's use of Kubernetes webhooks and the related issues that can arise." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/webhook/>Dynamic Admission Webhooks Overview</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes Istio's use of Kubernetes webhooks for automatic sidecar injection." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/injection-concepts/>Automatic Sidecar Injection</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how Citadel determines whether to create service account secrets." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/secret-creation/>Service Account Secret Creation</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows how to do health checking for Istio services." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/mesh/app-health-check/>Health Checking of Istio Services</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Traffic Management"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Helps you manage the networking aspects of a running mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/traffic-management/>Traffic Management</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Information on how to specify protocols." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/traffic-management/protocol-selection/>Protocol Selection</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Information on how to enable and understand Locality Load Balancing." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/traffic-management/locality-load-balancing/>Locality Load Balancing</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Security><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Helps you manage the security aspects of a running mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/security/>Security</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Use hardened container images to reduce Istio's attack surface." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/security/harden-docker-images/>Harden Docker Container Images</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Learn how to extend the lifetime of the Istio self-signed root certificate." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/security/root-transition/>Extending Self-Signed Certificate Lifetime</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Observability><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Helps you manage telemetry collection and visualization in a running mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/telemetry/>Observability</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Fine-grained control of Envoy statistics." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/configuration/telemetry/envoy-stats/>Envoy Statistics</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Best Practices"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Best practices for setting up and managing an Istio service mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/best-practices/>Best Practices</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="General best practices when setting up an Istio service mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/best-practices/deployment/>Deployment Best Practices</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration best practices to avoid networking or traffic management issues." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/best-practices/traffic-management/>Traffic Management Best Practices</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Best practices for securing applications using Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/best-practices/security/>Security Best Practices</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Best practices for observing applications using Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/best-practices/observability/>Observability Best Practices</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Common Problems"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes how to identify and resolve common problems in Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/>Common Problems</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Techniques to address common Istio traffic management and network problems." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/network-issues/>Traffic Management Problems</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Techniques to address common Istio authentication, authorization, and general security-related problems." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/security-issues/>Security Problems</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Dealing with telemetry collection issues." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/observability-issues/>Observability Problems</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Resolve common problems with Istio's use of Kubernetes webhooks for automatic sidecar injection." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/injection/>Sidecar Injection Problems</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to resolve configuration validation problems." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/common-problems/validation/>Configuration Validation Problems</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Diagnostic Tools"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Tools and techniques to help troubleshoot an Istio mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/>Diagnostic Tools</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio includes a supplemental tool that provides debugging and diagnosis for Istio service mesh deployments." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/istioctl/>Using the Istioctl Command-line Tool</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes tools and techniques to diagnose Envoy configuration issues related to traffic management." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/proxy-cmd/>Debugging Envoy and Istiod</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to use istioctl describe to verify the configurations of a pod in your mesh." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/istioctl-describe/>Understand your Mesh with Istioctl Describe</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Shows you how to use istioctl analyze to identify potential issues with your configuration." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/istioctl-analyze/>Diagnose your Configuration with Istioctl Analyze</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to use ControlZ to get insight into individual running components." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/controlz/>Component Introspection</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes how to use component-level logging to get insights into a running component's behavior." href=/v1.5/docs/ops/diagnostic-tools/component-logging/>Component Logging</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div><div class=card><button class="header dynamic" id=card161 title="Detailed authoritative reference material such as command-line options, configuration options, and API calling parameters." aria-controls=card161-body><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#reference"/></svg>Reference</button><div class="body default" aria-labelledby=card161 role=region id=card161-body><ul role=tree aria-expanded=true aria-labelledby=card161><li role=treeitem aria-label=Configuration><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Detailed information on configuration options." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/>Configuration</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the options available when installing Istio using Helm charts." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/installation-options/>Installation Options (Helm)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting the service mesh as a whole." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/istio.mesh.v1alpha1/>Global Mesh Options</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting Istio control plane installation version and shape." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/istio.operator.v1alpha1/>IstioOperator Options</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Traffic Management"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes how to configure HTTP/TCP routing features." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/>Traffic Management</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting load balancing, outlier detection, etc." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/destination-rule/>Destination Rule</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Customizing Envoy configuration generated by Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/envoy-filter/>Envoy Filter</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting edge load balancer." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/gateway/>Gateway</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting label/content routing, sni routing, etc." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/virtual-service/>Virtual Service</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting network reachability of a sidecar." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/sidecar/>Sidecar</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration affecting service registry." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/networking/service-entry/>Service Entry</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Security><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes how to configure Istio's security features." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/>Security</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration to validate JWT." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/jwt/>JWTRule</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Request authentication configuration for workloads." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/request_authentication/>RequestAuthentication</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Peer authentication configuration for workloads." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/peer_authentication/>PeerAuthentication</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Authentication policy for Istio services." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/istio.authentication.v1alpha1/>Authentication Policy</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration for access control on workloads." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/authorization-policy/>Authorization Policy</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the supported conditions in authorization policies." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/conditions/>Authorization Policy Conditions</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration for Role Based Access Control." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/istio.rbac.v1alpha1/>RBAC (deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the supported constraints and properties." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/security/constraints-and-properties/>RBAC Constraints and Properties (deprecated)</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Telemetry V2"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes how to configure Istio telemetry V2." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/telemetry/>Telemetry V2</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio standard metrics exported by Istio telemetry." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/telemetry/metrics/>Istio Standard Metrics</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to configure v2 metrics (experimental)." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/telemetry/configurable_metrics/>Configurable Metrics (Experimental)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="How to enable Telemetry V2 with Wasm runtime (experimental)." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/telemetry/telemetry_v2_with_wasm/>Telemetry V2 with Wasm runtime (Experimental)</a></li></ul></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Resource annotations used by Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/annotations/>Resource Annotations</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Configuration Analysis Messages"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Documents the individual error and warning messages produced during configurarion analysis." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/>Configuration Analysis Messages</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/message-format/>Analyzer Message Format</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0109/>ConflictingMeshGatewayVirtualServiceHosts</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0110/>ConflictingSidecarWorkloadSelectors</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0002/>Deprecated</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0107/>MisplacedAnnotation</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0104/>GatewayPortNotOnWorkload</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0001/>InternalError</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0105/>IstioProxyImageMismatch</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0119/>JwtFailureDueToInvalidServicePortPrefix</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0113/>MTLSPolicyConflict</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0111/>MultipleSidecarsWithoutWorkloadSelectors</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0102/>NamespaceNotInjected</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0112/>VirtualServiceDestinationPortSelectorRequired</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0108/>UnknownAnnotation</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0106/>SchemaValidationError</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0101/>ReferencedResourceNotFound</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0118/>PortNameIsNotUnderNamingConvention</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/analysis/ist0103/>PodMissingProxy</a></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Mixer Policies and Telemetry (Deprecated)"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes how to configure Mixer's policy and telemetry features." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/>Mixer Policies and Telemetry (Deprecated)</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Configuration state for the Mixer client library." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/istio.mixer.v1.config.client/>Mixer Client</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the rules used to configure Mixer's policy and telemetry features." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/istio.policy.v1beta1/>Rules</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the configuration model for Istio's policy enforcement and telemetry mechanisms." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/mixer-overview/>Mixer Configuration Model (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Describes the base attribute vocabulary used for policy and control." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/attribute-vocabulary/>Attribute Vocabulary (Deprecated)</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Mixer configuration expression language reference." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/expression-language/>Expression Language</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label="Mixer Adapters (Deprecated)"><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Mixer adapters allow Istio to interface to a variety of infrastructure backends for such things as metrics and logs." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/>Mixer Adapters (Deprecated)</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver metrics to Apache SkyWalking." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/apache-skywalking/>Apache SkyWalking</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for Apigee's distributed policy checks and analytics." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/apigee/>Apigee</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to enforce authentication and authorization policies for web apps and APIs." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/app-identity-access-adapter/>App Identity and Access</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for circonus.com's monitoring solution." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/circonus/>Circonus</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for cloudmonitor metrics." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/cloudmonitor/>CloudMonitor</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for cloudwatch metrics." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/cloudwatch/>CloudWatch</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver metrics to a dogstatsd agent for delivery to DataDog." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/datadog/>Datadog</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver tracing data to Zipkin." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/zipkin/>Zipkin</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that always returns a precondition denial." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/denier/>Denier</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="An Istio Mixer adapter to send telemetry data to New Relic." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/newrelic/>New Relic</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that delivers logs to a Fluentd daemon." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/fluentd/>Fluentd</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that extracts information from a Kubernetes environment." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/kubernetesenv/>Kubernetes Env</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver metrics to Layer5." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/layer5/>Layer5</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that performs whitelist or blacklist checks." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/list/>List</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for a simple in-memory quota management system." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/memquota/>Memory quota</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that implements an Open Policy Agent engine." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/opa/>OPA</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver metrics to Wavefront by VMware." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/wavefront/>Wavefront by VMware</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to locally output logs and metrics." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/stdio/>Stdio</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver metrics to a StatsD backend." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/statsd/>StatsD</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver logs, metrics, and traces to Stackdriver." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/stackdriver/>Stackdriver</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter to deliver logs and metrics to Papertrail and AppOptics backends." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/solarwinds/>SolarWinds</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter for a Redis-based quota management system." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/redisquota/>Redis Quota</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Adapter that exposes Istio metrics for ingestion by a Prometheus harvester." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters/prometheus/>Prometheus</a></li></ul></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Default Metrics exported from Istio through Mixer." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/metrics/>Default Metrics</a></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Templates><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Mixer templates are used to send data to individual adapters." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/>Templates</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that represents a single API key." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/apikey/>API Key</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template used to represent an access control query." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/authorization/>Authorization</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that carries no data, useful for testing." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/checknothing/>Check Nothing</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that is used to control the production of Kubernetes-specific attributes." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/kubernetes/>Kubernetes</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template designed to let you perform list checking operations." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/listentry/>List Entry</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that represents a single runtime log entry." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/logentry/>Log Entry</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that represents a single runtime metric." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/metric/>Metric</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="The Analytics template is used to dispatch runtime telemetry to Apigee." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/analytics/>Analytics</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that represents an individual span within a distributed trace." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/tracespan/>Trace Span</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that carries no data, useful for testing." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/reportnothing/>Report Nothing</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template that represents a quota allocation request." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/quota/>Quota</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="A template designed to report observed communication edges between workloads." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/templates/edge/>Edge</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li role=treeitem aria-label=Commands><button aria-hidden=true></button><a title="Describes usage and options of the Istio commands and utilities." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/>Commands</a><ul role=group aria-expanded=false class=leaf-section><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Galley provides configuration management services for Istio." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/galley/>galley</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio Certificate Authority (CA)." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/istio_ca/>istio_ca</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio control interface." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/>istioctl</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Mixer is Istio's abstraction on top of infrastructure backends." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/mixs/>mixs</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Kubernetes webhook for automatic Istio sidecar injection." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/sidecar-injector/>sidecar-injector</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio Pilot." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/pilot-discovery/>pilot-discovery</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio Pilot agent." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/pilot-agent/>pilot-agent</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="The Istio operator." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/operator/>operator</a></li><li role=none><a role=treeitem title="Istio security per-node agent." href=/v1.5/docs/reference/commands/node_agent/>node_agent</a></li></ul></li><li role=none><span role=treeitem class=current title="A glossary of common Istio terms.">Glossary</span></li></ul></div></div></div></nav></div><div class=article-container><button tabindex=-1 id=sidebar-toggler title="Toggle the navigation bar"><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#pull"/></svg></button><nav aria-label=Breadcrumb><ol><li><a href=/v1.5/ title="Connect, secure, control, and observe services.">Istio</a></li><li><a href=/v1.5/docs/ title="Learn how to deploy, use, and operate Istio.">Docs</a></li><li><a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/ title="Detailed authoritative reference material such as command-line options, configuration options, and API calling 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<a href=#W aria-label="Words starting with the letter W">W</a></div><div class=entries><div id=A class=letter><h4>A</h4><dl><dt id=adapters>Adapters</dt><dd aria-labelledby=adapters><p>Adapters are plug-ins to <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#mixer>Mixer</a>, Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/>policy and telemetry</a> component, which enable it to interface
with an open-ended set of infrastructure backends that deliver core functionality, such as logging,
monitoring, quotas, ACL checking, and more.
The exact set of adapters used at runtime is determined through configuration and can easily be
extended to target new or custom infrastructure backends.</p><p><a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/adapters>Learn more about adapters</a>.</p></dd><dt id=annotation>Annotation</dt><dd aria-labelledby=annotation><p>Annotation refers to a
<a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/>Kubernetes annotation</a>
attached to a resource, for example a pod. For a list of valid Istio-specific annotations, see
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/annotations/>Resource Annotations</a>.</p></dd><dt id=attribute>Attribute</dt><dd aria-labelledby=attribute><p>Attributes control the runtime behavior of services running in the mesh.
Attributes are named and typed pieces of metadata describing ingress and egress traffic and the
environment this traffic occurs in. An Istio attribute carries a specific piece
of information such as the error code of an API request, the latency of an API request, or the
original IP address of a TCP connection. For example:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>request.path: xyz/abc
request.size: 234
request.time: 12:34:56.789 04/17/2017
source.ip: 192.168.0.1
destination.workload.name: example
</code></pre><p>Attributes are used by Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/>policy and telemetry</a> features.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=C class=letter><h4>C</h4><dl><dt id=cluster>Cluster</dt><dd aria-labelledby=cluster><p>A cluster is set of compute nodes that run containerized applications.
Typically, the compute nodes comprising a cluster can reach each other directly.
Clusters limit external access through rules or policies.</p></dd><dt id=control-plane>Control Plane</dt><dd aria-labelledby=control-plane><p>A control plane is a set of system services that configure the mesh or a subset of
the mesh to manage the communication between the workload instances within.
All instances of a control plane in a single mesh share the same configuration source.</p></dd><dt id=crds>CRDs</dt><dd aria-labelledby=crds><p><a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/>Custom resource definitions (CRDs)</a>
are extensions of the default Kubernetes API. Istio uses the Kubernetes CRD API for
configuration, even for non-Kubernetes Istio deployments.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=D class=letter><h4>D</h4><dl><dt id=data-plane>Data Plane</dt><dd aria-labelledby=data-plane><p>The data plane is the part of the mesh that directly controls communication between workload instances.
Istio&rsquo;s data plane uses intelligent <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> proxies deployed as sidecars to mediate and control all
traffic that your mesh services send and receive.</p></dd><dt id=destination>Destination</dt><dd aria-labelledby=destination><p>A remote <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a> that <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> interacts with on behalf of a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#source>source</a> <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload>workload</a>.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=E class=letter><h4>E</h4><dl><dt id=envoy>Envoy</dt><dd aria-labelledby=envoy><p>The high-performance proxy that Istio uses to mediate inbound and outbound traffic for all <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>services</a> in the
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a>. <a href=https://envoyproxy.github.io/envoy/>Learn more about Envoy</a>.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=F class=letter><h4>F</h4><dl><dt id=failure-domain>Failure Domain</dt><dd aria-labelledby=failure-domain><p>A failure domain is a physical or logical section of the computing environment
that is negatively affected when a critical device or service experiences
problems.</p><p>For an Istio deployment, failure domains could encompass multiple availability
zones of your platform.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=I class=letter><h4>I</h4><dl><dt id=identity>Identity</dt><dd aria-labelledby=identity><p>Identity is a fundamental security infrastructure concept. The Istio identity
model is based on a first-class workload identity. At the beginning of
service-to-service communication, the two parties exchange credentials with
their identity information for mutual authentication purposes.</p><p>Clients check the server’s identity against their secure naming information to
determine if the server is authorized to run the service.</p><p>Servers check the client&rsquo;s identity to determine what information the client can
access. Servers base that determination on the configured authorization
policies.</p><p>Using identity, servers can audit the time information was accessed and what
information was accessed by a specific client. They can also charge clients
based on the services they use and reject any clients that failed to pay their
bill from accessing the services.</p><p>The Istio identity model is flexible and granular enough to represent a human
user, an individual service, or a group of services. On platforms without
first-class service identity, Istio can use other identities that can group
service instances, such as service names.</p><p>Istio supports the following service identities on different platforms:</p><ul><li><p>Kubernetes: Kubernetes service account</p></li><li><p>GKE/GCE: GCP service account</p></li><li><p>GCP: GCP service account</p></li><li><p>AWS: AWS IAM user/role account</p></li><li><p>On-premises (non-Kubernetes): user account, custom service account, service
name, Istio service account, or GCP service account. The custom service
account refers to the existing service account just like the identities that
the customer’s Identity Directory manages.</p></li></ul><p>Typically, the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#trust-domain>trust domain</a> specifies
the mesh the identity belongs to.</p></dd><dt id=istiod>Istiod</dt><dd aria-labelledby=istiod><p>The Istiod component is the consolidated monolithic control plane binary that encapsulates the functions of Pilot, Citadel, Mixer, and Galley.</p><p><a href=/v1.5/blog/2020/tradewinds-2020/#fewer-moving-parts>Learn more about Istiod</a>.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=M class=letter><h4>M</h4><dl><dt id=managed-control-plane>Managed Control Plane</dt><dd aria-labelledby=managed-control-plane><p>A managed control plane is a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#control-plane>control plane</a>
that cloud providers manage for their customers.
Managed control planes reduce the complexity of user deployments
and typically guarantee some level of performance and availability.</p></dd><dt id=mesh-federation>Mesh Federation</dt><dd aria-labelledby=mesh-federation><p>Mesh federation is the act of exposing services between meshes and enabling
communication across mesh boundaries. Each mesh may expose a subset of its
services to enable one or more other meshes to consume the exposed services. You
can use mesh federation to enable communication between meshes in a
<a href=/v1.5/docs/ops/deployment/deployment-models/#multiple-meshes>multi-mesh deployment</a>.</p></dd><dt id=micro-segmentation>Micro-Segmentation</dt><dd aria-labelledby=micro-segmentation><p>Micro-segmentation is a security technique that creates secure zones in cloud deployments and allows organizations to
isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually.</p></dd><dt id=mixer>Mixer</dt><dd aria-labelledby=mixer><p>The Istio component is responsible for enforcing access control and usage policies across the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a> and collecting telemetry data
from <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> and other services.
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/>Learn more about Mixer</a>.</p></dd><dt id=mixer-handler>Mixer Handler</dt><dd aria-labelledby=mixer-handler><p>Handlers represent fully configured Mixer adapters. A single binary adapter can be used
with different configurations, each such configuration is known as a handler. At
runtime, Mixer routes <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#mixer-instance>instances</a> to one or more handlers.</p></dd><dt id=mixer-instance>Mixer Instance</dt><dd aria-labelledby=mixer-instance><p>An instance represents a chunk of Mixer data that is produced by inspecting a set of request <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#attribute>attributes</a> and applying the operator-supplied configuration.
Instances are delivered to individual <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#mixer-handler>handlers</a>, on their way to
infrastructure backends.</p></dd><dt id=multi-mesh>Multi-Mesh</dt><dd aria-labelledby=multi-mesh><p>Multi-mesh is a deployment model that consists of two or more <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service meshes</a>.
Each mesh has independent administration for naming and identities but you can
expose services between meshes through <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#mesh-federation>mesh federation</a>.
The resulting deployment is a multi-mesh deployment.</p></dd><dt id=multicluster>Multicluster</dt><dd aria-labelledby=multicluster><p>Multicluster is a deployment model that consists of a
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>mesh</a> with multiple
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#cluster>clusters</a>.</p></dd><dt id=mutual-tls-authentication>Mutual TLS Authentication</dt><dd aria-labelledby=mutual-tls-authentication><p>Mutual TLS provides strong service-to-service authentication with built-in identity and credential management.
<a href=/v1.5/docs/concepts/security/#mutual-tls-authentication>Learn more about mutual TLS authentication</a>.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=O class=letter><h4>O</h4><dl><dt id=operator>Operator</dt><dd aria-labelledby=operator><p>Operators are a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. For more information, see <a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/>Operator pattern</a>.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=P class=letter><h4>P</h4><dl><dt id=pilot>Pilot</dt><dd aria-labelledby=pilot><p>The Istio component that programs the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> proxies, responsible for service discovery, load balancing, and routing.</p></dd><dt id=pod>Pod</dt><dd aria-labelledby=pod><p>A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as <a href=https://www.docker.com/>Docker</a> containers),
with shared storage and network, and a specification for how to run the containers.
Pods are the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instances</a> in a
<a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview/>Kubernetes</a> deployment of Istio.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=R class=letter><h4>R</h4><dl><dt id=routing-rules>Routing Rules</dt><dd aria-labelledby=routing-rules><p>Routing rules, which you configure in a <a href=/v1.5/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#virtual-services>virtual service</a>,
define the paths that requests follow within the service mesh. With routing rules, you can define
conditions to route traffic addressed to the virtual service&rsquo;s host to specific
destination workloads. Routing rules let you control traffic for tasks
like A/B testing, canary rollouts, and staged rollouts with percentage-based traffic splits.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=S class=letter><h4>S</h4><dl><dt id=secure-naming>Secure Naming</dt><dd aria-labelledby=secure-naming><p>Provides a mapping between a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-name>service name</a> and the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance-principal>workload instance principals</a> that are authorized to
run the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instances</a> implementing a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a>.</p></dd><dt id=service>Service</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service><p>A delineated group of related behaviors within a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a>. Services are identified using a
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-name>service name</a>,
and Istio policies such as load balancing and routing are applied using these names.
A service is typically materialized by one or more <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-endpoint>service endpoints</a>, and may consist of multiple
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-version>service versions</a>.</p></dd><dt id=service-consumer>Service Consumer</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-consumer><p>The agent that is using a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a>.</p></dd><dt id=service-endpoint>Service Endpoint</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-endpoint><p>The network-reachable manifestation of a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a>.
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>Workload instances</a> expose service endpoints but not all
services have service endpoints.</p></dd><dt id=service-mesh>Service Mesh</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-mesh><p>A <em>service mesh</em> or simply <em>mesh</em> is an infrastructure layer that enables
managed, observable and secure communication between
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instances</a>.</p><p>Service names combined with a namespace are unique within a mesh.
In a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#multicluster>multicluster</a> mesh, for example,
the <code>bar</code> service in the <code>foo</code> namespace in <code>cluster-1</code> is considered the same
service as the <code>bar</code> service in the <code>foo</code> namespace in <code>cluster-2</code>.</p><p>Since <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#identity>identities</a> are shared within the service
mesh, <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instances</a> can authenticate communication with any other <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload
instance</a> within the same service mesh.</p></dd><dt id=service-name>Service Name</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-name><p>A name that uniquely identifies a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a> within the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a>.
A service may not be renamed while maintaining its identity.
A service may have multiple <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-version>versions</a>, but a service name is version-independent.</p></dd><dt id=service-operator>Service Operator</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-operator><p>The agent that manages a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a> within a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a> by manipulating configuration state
and monitoring the service&rsquo;s health via a variety of dashboards.</p></dd><dt id=service-producer>Service Producer</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-producer><p>The agent that creates a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a>.</p></dd><dt id=service-registry>Service Registry</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-registry><p>Istio maintains an internal service registry containing the set of <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>services</a>,
and their corresponding <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-endpoint>service endpoints</a>, running in a service mesh.
Istio uses the service registry to generate <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> configuration.</p><p>Istio does not provide <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_discovery>service discovery</a>,
although most services are automatically added to the registry by <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#pilot>Pilot</a>
adapters that reflect the discovered services of the underlying platform (Kubernetes, Consul, plain DNS).
Additional services can also be registered manually using a
<a href=/v1.5/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#service-entries><code>ServiceEntry</code></a> configuration.</p></dd><dt id=service-version>Service Version</dt><dd aria-labelledby=service-version><p>Distinct variants of a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>service</a>, typically backed by different versions of a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload>workload</a> binary.
Common scenarios where multiple service versions may be used include A/B testing and canary rollouts.</p></dd><dt id=source>Source</dt><dd aria-labelledby=source><p>The downstream client of the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy>Envoy</a> proxy.
Within the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh>service mesh</a> a source is typically a
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload>workload</a>, but the source for ingress traffic may include other clients such as a
browser or mobile app.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=T class=letter><h4>T</h4><dl><dt id=tls-origination>TLS Origination</dt><dd aria-labelledby=tls-origination><p>TLS origination occurs when an Istio proxy (sidecar or egress gateway) is configured to accept unencrypted
internal HTTP connections, encrypt the requests, and then forward them to HTTPS servers that are secured
using simple or mutual TLS. This is the opposite of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS_termination_proxy>TLS termination</a>
where an ingress proxy accepts incoming TLS connections, decrypts the TLS, and passes unencrypted
requests on to internal mesh services.</p></dd><dt id=trust-domain>Trust Domain</dt><dd aria-labelledby=trust-domain><p><a href=https://spiffe.io/spiffe/concepts/#trust-domain>Trust domain</a> corresponds to the trust root of a system and is part of a workload identity</p><p>Istio uses a trust domain to create all
<a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#identity>identities</a> within a mesh. Every mesh has
an exclusive trust domain.</p><p>For example in <code>spiffe://mytrustdomain.com/ns/default/sa/myname</code> the substring
identifying the mesh is: <code>mytrustdomain.com</code>. This substring is the trust
domain of the mesh.</p></dd><dt id=trust-domain-migration>Trust Domain Migration</dt><dd aria-labelledby=trust-domain-migration><p>The process of changing the <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#trust-domain>trust domain</a> of an Istio mesh.</p></dd></dl></div><div id=W class=letter><h4>W</h4><dl><dt id=workload>Workload</dt><dd aria-labelledby=workload><p>A binary deployed by <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#operator>operators</a> to deliver some function of a service mesh application.
Workloads have names, namespaces, and unique ids. These properties are available in policy and telemetry configuration
using the following <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#attribute>attributes</a>:</p><ul><li><code>source.workload.name</code>, <code>source.workload.namespace</code>, <code>source.workload.uid</code></li><li><code>destination.workload.name</code>, <code>destination.workload.namespace</code>, <code>destination.workload.uid</code></li></ul><p>In Kubernetes, a workload typically corresponds to a Kubernetes deployment,
while a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instance</a> corresponds to an individual <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#pod>pod</a> managed
by the deployment.</p></dd><dt id=workload-instance>Workload Instance</dt><dd aria-labelledby=workload-instance><p>A single instantiation of a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload>workload&rsquo;s</a> binary.
A workload instance can expose zero or more <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service-endpoint>service endpoints</a>,
and can consume zero or more <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#service>services</a>.</p><p>Workload instances have a number of properties:</p><ul><li>Name and namespace</li><li>Unique ID</li><li>IP Address</li><li>Labels</li><li>Principal</li></ul><p>These properties are available in policy and telemetry configuration
using the many <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/config/policy-and-telemetry/attribute-vocabulary/><code>source.*</code> and <code>destination.*</code> attributes</a>.</p></dd><dt id=workload-instance-principal>Workload Instance Principal</dt><dd aria-labelledby=workload-instance-principal><p>The verifiable authority under which a <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#workload-instance>workload instance</a> runs.
Istio&rsquo;s service-to-service authentication is used to produce the workload principal.
By default workload principals are compliant with the SPIFFE ID format.</p><p>Workload instance principals are available in policy and telemetry configuration
using the <code>source.principal</code> and <code>destination.principal</code> <a href=/v1.5/docs/reference/glossary/#attribute>attributes</a>.</p></dd></dl></div></div></div></article><div id=endnotes-container aria-hidden=true><h2>Links</h2><ol id=endnotes></ol></div></div></main><footer><div class=user-links><a class=channel title="Go download Istio 1.5.4 now" href=/v1.5/docs/setup/getting-started/#download aria-label="Download Istio"><span>download</span><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.5/img/icons.svg#download"/></svg>
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