- Better security: separate Istio components reside in different namespaces, allowing different teams or
roles to manage different parts of Istio. For example, a security team would maintain the
root CA and policy, a telemetry team may only have access to Prometheus,
and a different team may maintain the control plane components (which are highly security sensitive).

```bash
kubectl create ns $WATCH_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
kubectl create ns $LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
```

1. From the istio repo root directory, run `go run ./operator/cmd/operator/*.go server`

To use Remote debugging with IntelliJ, replace above step 2 with following:

1. From `./operator/cmd/operator` path run
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