Kubernetes cluster with Istio running within it. Instead, NCC Group used various hosting options (i.e. Minikube, GKE, KOPS) to build reference clusters and test various configurations. These reference architectures Cluster The assessment was performed using a variety of types environments including GCP, AWS, minikube, and GKE but for reference, each of the findings can be found within the reference cluster architecture installation steps used for creating a minikube cluster with the versions of Istio relevant to this assessment. These steps assume a Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS machine with minikube20 configured to use KVM, and Go installed