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name: Feature request
about: Suggest an idea to improve Istio

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(This is used to request new product features, please visit <https://github.com/istio/istio/discussions> for questions on using Istio)

**Describe the feature request**

**Describe alternatives you've considered**

**Affected product area (please put an X in all that apply)**

[ ] Ambient
[ ] Docs
[ ] Dual Stack
[ ] Installation
[ ] Networking

# The preview profile contains features that are experimental.
# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  values:

# The preview profile contains features that are experimental.
# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

# The preview profile contains features that are experimental.
# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

# If you want to make a change in this file, edit the original one and run "make gen".

# The preview profile contains features that are experimental.
# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:

# If you want to make a change in this file, edit the original one and run "make gen".

# The preview profile contains features that are experimental.
# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:

# The demo profile enables a variety of things to try out Istio in non-production environments.
# * Lower resource utilization.
# * Some additional features are enabled by default; especially ones used in some tasks in istio.io.
# * More ports enabled on the ingress, which is used in some tasks.
meshConfig:
  accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
  extensionProviders:
    - name: otel

  // built in to Kubernetes, and have special scaling options on top of those
  // available to normal per-pod metrics using the "pods" source.
  // This is an alpha feature and can be enabled by the HPAContainerMetrics feature flag.
  // +optional
  optional ContainerResourceMetricSource containerResource = 7;

  // external refers to a global metric that is not associated

  // built in to Kubernetes, and have special scaling options on top of those
  // available to normal per-pod metrics using the "pods" source.
  // This is an alpha feature and can be enabled by the HPAContainerMetrics feature flag.
  // +optional
  optional ContainerResourceMetricSource containerResource = 7;

  // external refers to a global metric that is not associated

  // If specified, the node's taints.
  // +optional
  repeated Taint taints = 5;

  // Deprecated: Previously used to specify the source of the node's configuration for the DynamicKubeletConfig feature. This feature is removed.
  // +optional
  optional NodeConfigSource configSource = 6;

  // Deprecated. Not all kubelets will set this field. Remove field after 1.13.
  // see: https://issues.k8s.io/61966