case "${KUBERNETES_CNI:-}" in 

    "calico")
      echo "Installing Calico CNI"
      install_calico "" "$(dirname "$CONFIG")"
      ;;

    "")
      # perfectly fine, we accepted the default KinD CNI
      ;;

    *)
      # we don't know what to do but we've got no CNI, return non-zero
      echo "${KUBERNETES_CNI} is not recognized. Supported options are \"calico\" or do not set the variable to use default."

The details for the deployment & installation of this plugin were pretty much lifted directly from the
[Calico CNI plugin](https://github.com/projectcalico/cni-plugin).

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:

      },
      "gridPos": {
        "h": 8,
        "w": 12,
        "x": 0,
        "y": 8
      },
      "id": 4,
      "links": [],
      "options": {
        "legend": {
          "calcs": [],
          "displayMode": "list",
          "placement": "bottom",
          "showLegend": true
        },
        "tooltip": {
          "mode": "multi",
          "sort": "none"
        }

        "overrides": []
      },
      "gridPos": {
        "h": 8,
        "w": 12,
        "x": 0,
        "y": 1
      },
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      "options": {
        "legend": {
          "calcs": [],
          "displayMode": "list",
          "placement": "bottom",
          "showLegend": true
        },
        "tooltip": {
          "mode": "multi",
          "sort": "none"
        }

      "maxDataPoints": 100,
      "options": {
        "colorMode": "none",
        "graphMode": "area",
        "justifyMode": "auto",
        "orientation": "horizontal",
        "reduceOptions": {
          "calcs": [
            "mean"
          ],
          "fields": "",
          "values": false
        },
        "textMode": "auto"
      },
      "pluginVersion": "10.1.5",
      "targets": [
        {