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+Use Istio as control plane
+=========================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 4
+   :glob:
+
+   istio/discovery
+   istio/router
+
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+Discovery
+======================
+
+----
+
+Introduction
+++++
+
+Istio Pilot can be integrated with Mesher, working as the Service Discovery component.
+
+Configuration
+++++
+
+edit chassis.yaml.
+
+**registrator.disabled**
+
+ Must disable registrator, because registrator is is used in client side discovery. mesher leverage server side discovery which is supported by kubernetes
+
+**serviceDiscovery.type**
+
+ specify the discovery plugin type to "pilot" or "pilotv2", since Istio removes the xDS v1 API support from version 0.8, if you use Istio 0.8 or higher, make sure to set type to pilotv2.
+
+**serviceDiscovery.address**
+
+ the pilot address, in a Istio environment, for xDS v1 API, pilot usually listens on the http port 8080, while for xDS v2 API, it becomes a grpc port 15010.
+
+
+examples
+++++
+
+::
+
+  cse: # Using xDS v1 API
+    service:
+      Registry:
+        registrator:
+          disabled: true
+        serviceDiscovery:
+          type: pilot
+          address: http://istio-pilot.istio-system:8080
+
+::
+
+  cse: # Using xDS v2 API
+    service:
+      Registry:
+        registrator:
+          disabled: true
+        serviceDiscovery:
+          type: pilotv2
+          address: grpc://istio-pilot.istio-system:15010
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+# Route Rule
+
+Instead of using CSE and route config to manage route, mesher supports Istio as a control plane to set route rule and follows the envoy API reference to manage route. This page gives the examples to show how requests are routed between micro services.
+
+## Mesher Configurations
+
+In **Consumer** router.yaml, you can set router.infra to define which router plugin mesher fetches from.  The default router.infra  is cse, which means the routerule comes from route config in CSE config-center. If router.infra is set to be pilot, the router.address is necessary, such as the in-cluster istio-pilot grpc address.
+
+```yaml
+router:
+  infra: pilot # pilot or cse
+  address: http://istio-pilot.istio-system:15010
+```
+
+In **Both** consumer and provider registry configurations, the recommended one shows below.
+
+```yaml
+cse:
+  service:
+    registry:
+      registrator:
+        disabled: true
+      serviceDiscovery:
+        type: pilot
+        address: http://istio-pilot.istio-system:8080
+```
+
+## Kubernetes Configurations
+
+The provider applications of v1, v2 and v3 version could be deployed in kubernetes cluster as **Deployment** with differenent labels. The labels of version is necessary now,  and you need to set env to generate nodeID in Istio system, such as **POD_NAMESPACE, POD_NAME** and **INSTANCE_IP**.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    version: v1
+    app: pilot
+    name: istioserver
+  name: istioserver-v1
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  progressDeadlineSeconds: 600
+  replicas: 1
+  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: pilot
+      version: v1
+      name: istioserver
+  strategy:
+    rollingUpdate:
+      maxSurge: 1
+      maxUnavailable: 1
+    type: RollingUpdate
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: pilot
+        version: v1
+        name: istioserver
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: gosdk-istio-server:latest
+        imagePullPolicy: Always
+        name: istioserver-v1
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 8084
+          protocol: TCP
+        resources: {}
+        terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log
+        terminationMessagePolicy: File
+        env:
+        - name: CSE_SERVICE_CENTER
+          value: http://istio-pilot.istio-system:8080
+        - name: POD_NAME
+          valueFrom:
+            fieldRef:
+              apiVersion: v1
+              fieldPath: metadata.name
+        - name: POD_NAMESPACE
+          valueFrom:
+            fieldRef:
+              apiVersion: v1
+              fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+        - name: INSTANCE_IP
+          valueFrom:
+            fieldRef:
+              apiVersion: v1
+              fieldPath: status.podIP
+        volumeMounts:
+        - mountPath: /etc/certs/
+          name: istio-certs
+          readOnly: true
+      dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
+      initContainers:
+      restartPolicy: Always
+      schedulerName: default-scheduler
+      securityContext: {}
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
+      volumes:
+      - name: istio-certs
+        secret:
+          defaultMode: 420
+          optional: true
+          secretName: istio.default
+```
+
+## Istio v1alpha3 router configurations
+
+ [Traffic-management](https://istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/request-routing/) gives references and examples of Istio new router rule schema. First, subsets is defined according to labels. Then you can set route rule of differenent weight for virtual services.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
+kind: DestinationRule
+metadata:
+  name: istioserver
+spec:
+  host: istioserver
+  subsets:
+  - name: v1
+    labels:
+      version: v1
+  - name: v2
+    labels:
+      version: v2
+  - name: v3
+    labels:
+      version: v3
+```
+
+> **NOTICE: The subsets only support labels of version to distinguish differenent virtual services, this constrains will canceled later.**
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
+kind: VirtualService
+metadata:
+  name: istioserver
+spec:
+  hosts:
+    - istioserver
+  http:
+  - route:
+    - destination:
+        host: istioserver
+        subset: v1
+      weight: 25
+    - destination:
+        host: istioserver
+        subset: v2
+      weight: 25
+    - destination:
+        host: istioserver
+        subset: v3
+      weight: 50
+
+```
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