and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction
layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes.

Istio is composed of these components:

- **Envoy** - Sidecar proxies per microservice to handle ingress/egress traffic

following the guidance below.
If you are able to, a clean installation is simpler. However, this often requires an external IP migration which can be challenging.

WARNING: when installing over an existing deployment, the two deployments will be merged together by Helm, which may lead to unexpected results.

#### Legacy Gateway Helm charts