`pilot-agent` - the Istio agent in every istio-proxy container: it starts Envoy, fetches its certificates and answers health checks

pilot-agent COMMAND [flags]

Gotchas

Run it inside the proxy: kubectl exec POD -c istio-proxy -- pilot-agent request GET stats. It forwards to Envoy's admin port (15000), which only listens on localhost.

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