microservices](https://istio.io/latest/docs/examples/microservices-istio/), manage [traffic flow](https://istio.io/latest/docs/concepts/traffic-management/) across microservices, enforce policies
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:

```
sudo pip install yq
alias kv-pairify='yq ".configuration[]" | jq ".[]" | jq -r ".name + \"=\" + .value"'
```

Let's take for example a set of 12 compute nodes with an aggregate memory of _1.2TiB_, we need to do following settings for optimal results. Add the following optimal entries for _core-site.xml_ to configure _s3a_ with **MinIO**. Most important options here are

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