iopFiles:             iopFiles,
		ingress:              map[string]map[string]ingress.Instance{},
		istiod:               map[string]istiokube.PortForwarder{},
		externalControlPlane: ctx.AllClusters().IsExternalControlPlane(),
	}

	t0 := time.Now()
	defer func() {
		ctx.RecordTraceEvent("istio-deploy", time.Since(t0).Seconds())
	}()
	i.id = ctx.TrackResource(i)

	if !cfg.DeployIstio {

	}

	return fmt.Sprintf(`
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
%s
`, data)
}

func (c *Config) fillDefaults(ctx resource.Context) {
	if ctx.AllClusters().IsExternalControlPlane() {
		c.PrimaryClusterIOPFile = IntegrationTestExternalIstiodPrimaryDefaultsIOP
		c.ConfigClusterIOPFile = IntegrationTestExternalIstiodConfigDefaultsIOP
		if c.ConfigClusterValues == "" {

	_, err := c.Kube().CoreV1().ConfigMaps(cm.namespace).Update(context.TODO(), cfgMap, metav1.UpdateOptions{})
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if c.IsExternalControlPlane() {
		// Normal control plane uses ConfigMap informers to load mesh config. This is ~instant.
		// The external config uses a file mounted ConfigMap. This is super slow, but we can trigger it explicitly: