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title: Sidecar
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A sidecar, generally, is a container that runs alongside a primary application to provide additional functionality.
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In Istio, sidecar mode is a [data plane mode](/docs/reference/glossary/#data-plane-mode) that runs an [Envoy](/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy) proxy alongside each
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[Pod](/docs/reference/glossary/#pod).
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