Specifically:

- The CNI installation script is containerized and deployed as a daemonset in k8s.  The relevant calico k8s manifests were used as the model for the istio-cni plugin's manifest:
    - [daemonset and configmap](https://docs.projectcalico.org/v3.2/getting-started/kubernetes/installation/hosted/calico.yaml) - search for the `calico-node` Daemonset and its `install-cni` container deployment

apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  profile: minimal
```

If you don't specify a configuration profile, Istio is installed using the `default` configuration profile. All
profiles listed in istio.io are available by default, or `profile:` can point to a local file path to reference a custom

  //
  // +optional
  optional ServiceReference service = 1;

  // `caBundle` is a PEM encoded CA bundle which will be used to validate the webhook's server certificate.
  // If unspecified, system trust roots on the apiserver are used.
  // +optional
  optional bytes caBundle = 2;

) (validation.Warning, error) {
	decoder := yaml.NewDecoder(reader)
	decoder.SetStrict(true)
	var errs error
	var warnings validation.Warning
	for {
		// YAML allows non-string keys and the produces generic keys for nested fields
		raw := make(map[any]any)
		err := decoder.Decode(&raw)
		if err == io.EOF {
			return warnings, errs
		}
		if err != nil {

  //
  // +optional
  optional ServiceReference service = 1;

  // `caBundle` is a PEM encoded CA bundle which will be used to validate the webhook's server certificate.
  // If unspecified, system trust roots on the apiserver are used.
  // +optional
  optional bytes caBundle = 2;

  // completedIndexes holds the completed indexes when .spec.completionMode =
  // "Indexed" in a text format. The indexes are represented as decimal integers
  // separated by commas. The numbers are listed in increasing order. Three or
  // more consecutive numbers are compressed and represented by the first and
  // last element of the series, separated by a hyphen.

		fmt.Sprintf("Comma-separated minimum per-logger level of messages to output, in the form of"+
			" [<logger>:]<level>,[<logger>:]<level>,... or <level> to change all active loggers, "+
			"where logger components can be listed by running \"istioctl proxy-config log <pod-name[.namespace]>\""+
			"or referred from https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/main/source/common/common/logger.h, and level can be one of %s", levelListString))
	return logCmd
}

# List of binaries that have their size tested
RELEASE_SIZE_TEST_BINARIES:=pilot-discovery pilot-agent istioctl envoy ztunnel client server

# agent: enables agent-specific files. Usually this is used to trim dependencies where they would be hard to trim through standard refactoring
# disable_pgv: disables protoc-gen-validation. This is not used buts adds many MB to Envoy protos

determine which *types* may be impacted. For example, we know a `WasmPlugin` does not impact the `Cluster` type, so we can skip generating `Cluster` in this case. Warning: Envoy currently has a bug that *requires* `Endpoints` to be pushed any time the corresponding `Cluster` is pushed, so this optimization is intentionally turned off in this specific case.

Finally, we determine which subset of the type we need to generate. XDS has two modes - "State of the World (SotW)" and "Delta". In SotW, we...

}

/// mostly copy pasted from spire below:

// regexes listed here have to exclusively match a cgroup path
// the regexes must include two named groups "poduid" and "containerid"
// if the regex needs to exclude certain substrings, the "mustnotmatch" group can be used
// nolint: lll
var cgroupREs = []*regexp.Regexp{
	// the regex used to parse out the pod UID and container ID from a