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# Istio Operator

The istio/operator repo is part of istio/istio from 1.5 onwards.
You can [contribute](../CONTRIBUTING.md) by picking an
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## Background and motivation

Motivations to implement ztunnel generally came from two areas.

First, and most importantly, it serves as a means to implement the real goal: waypoints.
For various reasons outside the scope of this document, there is a desire to move from a sidecar based architecture to a "remote proxy" architecture.

BUILD_DEPS:=
ifeq ($(IN_BUILD_CONTAINER),1)
  ifneq ($(GOOS_LOCAL),"linux")
    BUILD_DEPS += build-linux
  endif
endif

export ARTIFACTS ?= $(TARGET_OUT)
export JUNIT_OUT ?= $(ARTIFACTS)/junit.xml
export REPO_ROOT := $(shell git rev-parse --show-toplevel)

# Make directories needed by the build system
$(shell mkdir -p $(TARGET_OUT_LINUX))
$(shell mkdir -p $(TARGET_OUT_LINUX)/logs)
$(shell mkdir -p $(dir $(JUNIT_OUT)))