- `set`: select profile or override profile defaults

#### Basic default manifest

The following command generates a manifest with the compiled-in `default` profile and charts:

```bash
istioctl manifest generate
```

You can see these sources for the compiled-in profiles and charts in the repo under `manifests/`. These profiles and charts are also included in the Istio release tar.

#### Output to dirs

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:

- **Envoy** - Sidecar proxies per microservice to handle ingress/egress traffic
   between services in the cluster and from a service to external