- the actual code is in pkg/install - including a readiness probe, monitoring.
    - it also sets up a UDS socket for istio-cni to send logs to this container.
    - based on config, it may run the 'repair' controller that detects pods where istio setup fails and restarts them, or created in corner cases.

# Version can be defined:
# (1) in a $VERSION shell variable, which takes precedence; or
# (2) in the VERSION file, in which we will append "-dev" to it
ifeq ($(VERSION),)
VERSION_FROM_FILE := $(shell cat VERSION)
ifeq ($(VERSION_FROM_FILE),)
$(error VERSION not detected. Make sure it's stored in the VERSION file or defined in VERSION variable)
endif
VERSION := $(VERSION_FROM_FILE)-dev
endif

export VERSION