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      • Install with Istioctl
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        • Before you begin
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      • Install Istio with an External Control Plane
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      • Install the Istio CNI node agent
      • Getting Started without the Gateway API
  • Ambient Mode
    • Overview
    • Getting Started
      • Deploy a sample application
      • Secure and visualize the application
      • Enforce authorization policies
      • Manage traffic
      • Clean up
    • Install
      • Platform-Specific Prerequisites
      • Install with Helm
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    • Upgrade
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      • Add workloads to the mesh
      • Verify mutual TLS is enabled
      • Ambient and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy
      • Use Layer 4 security policy
      • Configure waypoint proxies
      • Use Layer 7 features
      • Extend waypoints with WebAssembly plugins *
      • Troubleshoot connectivity issues with ztunnel
      • Troubleshoot issues with waypoints
    • Architecture
      • Ambient and the Istio control plane
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      • HBONE
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  • Tasks
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      • Request Routing
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        • Before you begin
        • Locality failover
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        • Using an External HTTPS Proxy
    • Security
      • Certificate Management
        • Plug in CA Certificates
        • Custom CA Integration using Kubernetes CSR *
      • Authentication
        • Authentication Policy
        • JWT claim based routing *
        • Copy JWT Claims to HTTP Headers *
        • Mutual TLS Migration
      • Authorization
        • HTTP Traffic
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        • External Authorization
        • Explicit Deny
        • Ingress Access Control
        • Trust Domain Migration
        • Dry Run *
      • TLS Configuration
        • Istio Workload Minimum TLS Version Configuration
    • Policy Enforcement
      • Enabling Rate Limits using Envoy
    • Observability
      • Telemetry API
      • Metrics
        • Customizing Istio Metrics with Telemetry API
        • Collecting Metrics for TCP Services
        • Customizing Istio Metrics
        • Classifying Metrics Based on Request or Response
        • Querying Metrics from Prometheus
        • Visualizing Metrics with Grafana
      • Logs
        • Configure access logs with Telemetry API
        • Envoy Access Logs
        • OpenTelemetry
      • Distributed Tracing
        • Overview
        • Configure tracing with Telemetry API
        • Configure tracing using MeshConfig and pod annotations
        • Configure trace sampling
        • OpenTelemetry
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      • Visualizing Your Mesh
      • Remotely Accessing Telemetry Addons
    • Extensibility
      • Distributing WebAssembly Modules *
  • Examples
    • Bookinfo Application
    • Bookinfo with a Virtual Machine
    • Learn Microservices using Kubernetes and Istio
      • Prerequisites
      • Set up a Kubernetes Cluster
      • Set up a Local Computer
      • Run a Microservice Locally
      • Run ratings in Docker
      • Run Bookinfo with Kubernetes
      • Test in production
      • Add a new version of reviews
      • Enable Istio on productpage
      • Enable Istio on all the microservices
      • Configure Istio Ingress Gateway
      • Monitoring with Istio
  • Operations
    • Deployment
      • Platform Requirements
      • Architecture
      • Security Model
      • Deployment Models
      • Virtual Machine Architecture
      • Performance and Scalability
      • Application Requirements
    • Configuration
      • Mesh Configuration
        • Dynamic Admission Webhooks Overview
        • Health Checking of Istio Services
        • Configuration Scoping
      • Traffic Management
        • Protocol Selection
        • Managing In-Mesh Certificates
        • TLS Configuration
        • Traffic Routing
        • DNS
        • Configuring Gateway Network Topology *
        • DNS Proxying
        • Multi-cluster Traffic Management
      • Security
        • Security policy examples
        • Harden Docker Container Images
      • Observability
        • Envoy Statistics
        • Monitoring Multicluster Istio with Prometheus
      • Extensibility
        • Pull Policy for WebAssembly Modules *
    • Best Practices
      • Deployment Best Practices
      • Traffic Management Best Practices
      • Security Best Practices
      • Image Signing and Validation
      • Observability Best Practices
    • Common Problems
      • Traffic Management Problems
      • Security Problems
      • Observability Problems
      • Sidecar Injection Problems
      • Configuration Validation Problems
      • Upgrade Problems
    • Diagnostic Tools
      • Using the Istioctl Command-line Tool
      • Debugging Envoy and Istiod
      • Understand your Mesh with Istioctl Describe
      • Diagnose your Configuration with Istioctl Analyze
      • Verifying Istio Sidecar Injection with Istioctl Check-Inject
      • Istiod Introspection
      • Component Logging
      • Debugging Virtual Machines
      • Troubleshooting Multicluster
      • Troubleshooting the Istio CNI plugin
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      • cert-manager
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  • Reference
    • Configuration
      • Analysis Messages
      • Global Mesh Options
      • IstioOperator Options
      • Configuration Status Field
      • Proxy Extensions
        • Wasm Plugin
      • Traffic Management
        • Destination Rule
        • Envoy Filter
        • Gateway
        • ProxyConfig
        • Service Entry
        • Sidecar
        • Virtual Service
        • Workload Entry
        • Workload Group
      • Security
        • PeerAuthentication
        • RequestAuthentication
        • Authorization Policy
        • Authorization Policy Conditions
        • Authorization Policy Normalization
      • Telemetry
      • Common Types
        • Workload Selector
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      • Resource Annotations
      • Resource Labels
      • Configuration Analysis Messages
        • AlphaAnnotation
        • Analyzer Message Format
        • ConflictingMeshGatewayVirtualServiceHosts
        • ConflictingSidecarWorkloadSelectors
        • ConflictingTelemetryWorkloadSelectors
        • DeploymentAssociatedToMultipleServices
        • DeploymentConflictingPorts
        • Deprecated
        • DeprecatedAnnotation
        • EnvoyFilterUsesAddOperationIncorrectly
        • EnvoyFilterUsesRelativeOperation
        • EnvoyFilterUsesRelativeOperationWithProxyVersion
        • EnvoyFilterUsesRemoveOperationIncorrectly
        • EnvoyFilterUsesReplaceOperationIncorrectly
        • ExternalControlPlaneAddressIsNotAHostname
        • ExternalNameServiceTypeInvalidPortName
        • GatewayPortNotDefinedOnService
        • IneffectivePolicy
        • IneffectiveSelector
        • InternalError
        • InvalidAnnotation
        • InvalidApplicationUID
        • InvalidExternalControlPlaneConfig
        • InvalidGatewayCredential
        • InvalidTelemetryProvider
        • LocalhostListener
        • MisplacedAnnotation
        • MultipleSidecarsWithoutWorkloadSelectors
        • MultipleTelemetriesWithoutWorkloadSelectors
        • NamespaceMultipleInjectionLabels
        • NamespaceNotInjected
        • NoMatchingWorkloadsFound
        • NoServerCertificateVerificationDestinationLevel
        • NoServerCertificateVerificationPortLevel
        • PodMissingProxy
        • PodsIstioProxyImageMismatchInNamespace
        • PortNameIsNotUnderNamingConvention
        • ReferencedResourceNotFound
        • SchemaValidationError
        • ServiceEntryAddressesRequired
        • UnknownAnnotation
        • VirtualServiceDestinationPortSelectorRequired
        • VirtualServiceHostNotFoundInGateway
        • VirtualServiceIneffectiveMatch
        • VirtualServiceUnreachableRule
    • Commands
      • install-cni
      • istioctl
      • pilot-agent
      • pilot-discovery
    • Glossary
  1. Documentation
  2. Reference
  3. Configuration
  4. Proxy Extensions

Proxy Extensions

Describes how to configure Istio proxy extensions.

Wasm Plugin

Extend the functionality provided by the Istio proxy through WebAssembly filters.

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