# git history files
.history_rewritten_*
# Eclipse artifacts
.project
.pydevproject
#Vagrant
tools/vagrant/.vagrant/
# Intellij
*.iml
.idea/
.run/
# Visual Studio Code
.vscode/
# Bazel
/bazel-*
# vi swap files
.*.swp
# vi backups
*.bak
# common backups
*~
# python artifacts
*.pyc
# pilot
pilot/pkg/kube/config
pilot/pkg/proxy/envoy/envoy
# lint
lintconfig.gen.json
.istiorc
.istiorc.mk

a set of control plane settings and components. While the entire mesh respects the same APIs and config,
apps may target different 'environments' which contain different instances and variants of Istio.

- Better security: separate Istio components reside in different namespaces, allowing different teams or
roles to manage different parts of Istio. For example, a security team would maintain the

`kube.Client` just bundles these all in one place, so we have a single object to pass around anywhere we need Kubernetes access.
Additionally, it has a fake client variant, that does the same thing but with fake clients for use in unit tests.

Aside from this, there are a few conveniences and workarounds built-in to the client to make things simpler.