externalControlPlane: ctx.AllClusters().IsExternalControlPlane(),
	}

	t0 := time.Now()
	defer func() {
		ctx.RecordTraceEvent("istio-deploy", time.Since(t0).Seconds())
	}()
	i.id = ctx.TrackResource(i)

	if !cfg.DeployIstio {
		scopes.Framework.Info("skipping deployment as specified in the config")
		return i, nil
	}