// e.g. `meta.k8s.io/v1.DeleteOptions` or `meta.k8s.io/v1.CreateOptions`. This may be
  // different than the options the caller provided. e.g. for a patch request the performed
  // Operation might be a CREATE, in which case the Options will a
  // `meta.k8s.io/v1.CreateOptions` even though the caller provided `meta.k8s.io/v1.PatchOptions`.
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.runtime.RawExtension options = 12;

    ic["Istio kube.Client"]
    ikc["Istio kclient.Client"]
    ikrt["Istio krt.Collection"]
    ikrt--"Builds on"-->ikc--"Builds on"-->ic--"Builds on"-->kcg
```

**`kube.Client`** is a fairly light wrapper around Kubernetes clients, but offers quite a few benefits.
Istio consumes _many_ different types of clients (at the time of writing, 7), as well as informers for each of these.

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