Consider Sail Operator for Istio with Service Mesh being merged back upstream Istio #181
Description
"As a preview of this effort, we are pleased to announce that there is a new operator for Istio on Red Hat OpenShift for developer preview and early feedback. This new operator - temporarily called the “Sail Operator” (more on this below) will be the foundation for OpenShift Service Mesh 3."
https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/introducing-a-new-operator-for-istio-on-openshift