of the conventional `istio-injected: true`. The name of the environment is defined as the namespace
where the corresponding control plane components (config, discovery, auto-injection) are running.
In the examples below, by default this is the `istio-control` namespace. Pod annotations can also
be used to select a different 'environment'.

## Installing

### CLI

To build the operator CLI, simply:

```bash
make build
```

Ensure the created binary is in your PATH to run the examples below.

### Controller (in cluster)

Building a custom controller requires a Dockerhub (or similar) account. To build using the container based build:

```bash
HUB=docker.io/<your-account> TAG=latest make docker.operator

### Examples

#### Configuring mesh configuration settings

Any [Mesh Config](https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/istio.mesh.v1alpha1/) options can be configured like below:

```yaml
meshConfig:
  accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
```

#### Revisions

Control plane revisions allow deploying multiple versions of the control plane in the same cluster.

```

### Migrating from other installation methods

Installations from other installation methods (such as istioctl, Istio Operator, other helm charts, etc) can be migrated to use the new Helm charts
following the guidance below.
If you are able to, a clean installation is simpler. However, this often requires an external IP migration which can be challenging.