- In sidecar mode, the CNI plugin can configure sidecar networking for pods when they are scheduled by the container runtime, using iptables. The CNI handling the netns setup replaces the current Istio approach using a `NET_ADMIN` privileged `initContainers` container, `istio-init`, injected in the pods along with `istio-proxy`...

levels representing a child dependency, use the following command:

```bash
istioctl manifest generate -o istio_manifests
```

Use depth first search to traverse the created directory hierarchy when applying your YAML files. This is needed for
correct sequencing of dependencies. Child manifest directories must wait for their parent directory to be fully applied,
but not their sibling manifest directories.