diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/pod.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/pod.md
index b938dfda00acd..ae2e2af2e4efb 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/pod.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/pod.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Pod
 ---
-A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) containers), with shared storage/network, and a specification for how to run the containers. A pod is the smallest deployable unit of computing in [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview/).
+A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) containers),
+with shared storage and network, and a specification for how to run the containers.
+Pods are the [workload instances](#workload-instance) in a
+[Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview/) deployment of Istio.
diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload-instance.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload-instance.md
index b8e2076071089..48c1acda6f701 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload-instance.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload-instance.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Workload Instance
 ---
-A single instantiation of a workload's binary.
+A single instantiation of a [workload's](#workload) binary.
 A workload instance can expose zero or more [service endpoints](#service-endpoint),
 and can consume zero or more [services](#service).
 
diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload.md
index 463bb4944a8d8..9b69a15b280a4 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/workload.md
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ using the following [attributes](#attribute):
 * `source.workload.name`, `source.workload.namespace`, `source.workload.uid`
 * `destination.workload.name`, `destination.workload.namespace`, `destination.workload.uid`
 
-In Kubernetes, a workload typically corresponds to a Kubernetes deployment, while a workload instance corresponds to an individual pod managed
+In Kubernetes, a workload typically corresponds to a Kubernetes deployment,
+while a [workload instance](#workload-instance) corresponds to an individual pod managed
 by the deployment.