istio.io/istio@v0.0.0-20240520182934-d79c90f27776/releasenotes/notes/istiod-sds.yaml (about) 1 apiVersion: release-notes/v2 2 kind: feature 3 area: security 4 releaseNotes: 5 - | 6 **Improved** Gateway certificates to be read and distributed from Istiod, rather than in the gateway pods. 7 This reduces the permissions required in the gateways, improves performance, and will make certificate reading 8 more flexible in the future. This change is fully backwards compatible with the old method, and requires no changes 9 to your cluster. If required, it can be disabled by setting the `ISTIOD_ENABLE_SDS_SERVER=false` 10 environment variable in Istiod.