# Istio Agent

This document describes the internal architecture of Istio agent.

## High Level overview

![High Level overview](docs/overview.svg)

At a high level, the Istio agent acts as an intermediate proxy between Istiod and Envoy. This is done
at two levels. For distributing workload certificates, Envoy will send [SDS](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/security/secret)

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  -mem <integer>     Set memory options (default: $sbt_mem, which is $(get_mem_opts $sbt_mem))
  -jvm-debug <port>  Turn on JVM debugging, open at the given port.

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