creating a [bug or feature request](../BUGS-AND-FEATURE-REQUESTS.md),
or just coming to the weekly [Environments Working Group](https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/WORKING-GROUPS.md)
meeting to share your ideas.

This document is an overview of how the operator works from a user perspective. For more details about the design and
architecture and a code overview, see [ARCHITECTURE.md](../architecture/environments/operator.md).

# Optional file including user-specific settings (HUB, TAG, etc)
-include .istiorc.mk

# Environment for tests, the directory containing istio and deps binaries.
# Typically same as GOPATH/bin, so tests work seamlessly with IDEs.

export ISTIO_BIN=$(GOBIN)

# If we are running in the Linux build container on non Linux hosts, we add the
# linux binaries to the build dependencies, BUILD_DEPS, which can be added to other targets

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

---
(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