AFAIK Istio mirroring is an infrastructure tooling for devops to mirror traffic between pods in k8s whilst mirrord mirrors traffic to your local ran service wit

AFAIK Istio mirroring is an infrastructure tooling for devops to mirror traffic between pods in k8s whilst mirrord mirrors traffic to your local ran service without deploying it or building it as a container. The first helps devops achieve traffic mirroring while mirrord helps backend engineers work on their apps faster and better