or just coming to the weekly [Environments Working Group](https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/WORKING-GROUPS.md)
meeting to share your ideas.

This document is an overview of how the operator works from a user perspective. For more details about the design and
architecture and a code overview, see [ARCHITECTURE.md](../architecture/environments/operator.md).

## Introduction

    # Use the user-specified, secret volume mounted key and certs for Pilot and workloads.
    mountMtlsCerts: false

    multiCluster:
      # Set to true to connect two kubernetes clusters via their respective
      # ingressgateway services when pods in each cluster cannot directly
      # talk to one another. All clusters should be using Istio mTLS and must
      # have a shared root CA for this model to work.

  //
  // AlwaysAllow policy means that all running pods (status.phase="Running"),
  // but not yet healthy are considered disrupted and can be evicted regardless
  // of whether the criteria in a PDB is met. This means perspective running
  // pods of a disrupted application might not get a chance to become healthy.
  // Healthy pods will be subject to the PDB for eviction.
  //
  // Additional policies may be added in the future.

    meshNetworks: {}
    # Use the user-specified, secret volume mounted key and certs for Pilot and workloads.
    mountMtlsCerts: false
    multiCluster:
      # Set to true to connect two kubernetes clusters via their respective
      # ingressgateway services when pods in each cluster cannot directly
      # talk to one another. All clusters should be using Istio mTLS and must
      # have a shared root CA for this model to work.

    # Use the user-specified, secret volume mounted key and certs for Pilot and workloads.
    mountMtlsCerts: false

    multiCluster:
      # Set to true to connect two kubernetes clusters via their respective
      # ingressgateway services when pods in each cluster cannot directly
      # talk to one another. All clusters should be using Istio mTLS and must
      # have a shared root CA for this model to work.

    # Use the user-specified, secret volume mounted key and certs for Pilot and workloads.
    mountMtlsCerts: false

    multiCluster:
      # Set to true to connect two kubernetes clusters via their respective
      # ingressgateway services when pods in each cluster cannot directly
      # talk to one another. All clusters should be using Istio mTLS and must
      # have a shared root CA for this model to work.