This repository defines component-level APIs and common configuration formats for the Istio platform. These definitions are specified using the protobuf syntax.

This repository depends only on the tools repository for tools used during build. This repository will not depend on any other repositories. Except for tools, all other Istio repositories can take a dependency on the api repository.

When making changes to the protos in this repository, your changes must comply with the API guidelines.

After the protobuf definitions are updated, the corresponding *pb.go and _pb2.py files must be generated by running scripts/generate-protos.sh and submitted as part of the same PR as the updated definitions.

If releasing a new tagged version, please update python/istio-api/setup.py version to reflect.