README.md

# pilot

# To Build/Run
```bash 
# Download the tar of the image from the Iron Bank and 
# navigate to the download directory (example tarball name of pilot.tar.gz)
podman load -i pilot.tar.gz
podman run pilot
```
The Pilot container does not expose any ports. The entrypoint is pilot-discovery.

Please refer to the Istio documentation on pilot-discovery to view options for running the container:
https://istio.io/docs/reference/commands/pilot-discovery/

## Notes:

Pilot provides service discovery for the Envoy sidecars, traffic management 
capabilities for intelligent routing (e.g., A/B tests, canary rollouts, etc.), 
and resiliency (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, etc.).

Deployment Note: The istio-pilot deployment had been removed in Istio 1.5 in favor of the 
istiod deployment, which contains all functionality that the Pilot deployment once had.