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# Istio Operator

The istio/operator repo is part of istio/istio from 1.5 onwards.
You can [contribute](../CONTRIBUTING.md) by picking an
[unassigned open issue](https://github.com/istio/istio/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aarea%2Fenvironments%2Foperator+no%3Aassignee),

RELEASE_SIZE_TEST_BINARIES:=pilot-discovery pilot-agent istioctl envoy ztunnel client server

# agent: enables agent-specific files. Usually this is used to trim dependencies where they would be hard to trim through standard refactoring
# disable_pgv: disables protoc-gen-validation. This is not used buts adds many MB to Envoy protos