referring to control plane revisions for sidecar injection.

With revision tags, rather than relabeling a namespace from "istio.io/rev=revision-a" to "istio.io/rev=revision-b" to
change which control plane revision handles injection, it's possible to create a revision tag "prod" and label our

    # always skip the injection on pods that match that label selector, regardless of the global policy.
    # See https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/additional-setup/sidecar-injection/#more-control-adding-exceptions
    neverInjectSelector: []
    alwaysInjectSelector: []

    # injectedAnnotations are additional annotations that will be added to the pod spec after injection

- and the other end is in ztunnel's pod

and setting up iptables rules to funnel traffic thru that socket "tube" to ztunnel and back.

This effectively behaves like ztunnel is an in-pod sidecar, without actually requiring the injection of ztunnel as a sidecar into the pod manifest, or mutatating the application pod in any way.

	} else {
		injector, err = setUpExternalInjector(cliContext, revision, injectorAddress)
		if err != nil || injector.clientConfig == nil {
			log.Warnf("failed to get injection config from mutatingWebhookConfigurations %q, will fall back to "+
				"get injection from the injection configmap %q : %v", whcName, defaultInjectWebhookConfigName, err)
			if *sidecarTemplate, err = getInjectConfigFromConfigMap(cliContext, revision); err != nil {

	// and we are installing a new IOP with default semantics, the default webhook shifts.
	if exists && len(mwhs.Items) == 0 && iop.Spec.GetRevision() == "" {
		p.Println("This installation will make default injection and validation pointing to the default revision, and " +
			"originally it was pointing to the revisioned one.")
	}
	return nil

	# external istiod config cluster charts
	cp manifests/charts/istio-control/istio-discovery/files/injection-template.yaml manifests/charts/istiod-remote/files
	cp manifests/charts/istio-control/istio-discovery/files/gateway-injection-template.yaml manifests/charts/istiod-remote/files

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	iptablesBuilder.AppendRule(
		iptableslog.UndefinedCommand, iptablesconstants.OUTPUT, iptablesconstants.NAT,
		"-j", ChainInpodOutput,
	)

	// From here on, we should be only inserting rules into our custom chains.

	// CLI: -A ISTIO_PRERT -m mark --mark 0x539/0xfff -j CONNMARK --set-xmark 0x111/0xfff
	//
	// DESC: If we have a packet mark, set a connmark.

    # always skip the injection on pods that match that label selector, regardless of the global policy.
    # See https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/additional-setup/sidecar-injection/#more-control-adding-exceptions
    neverInjectSelector: []
    alwaysInjectSelector: []
    # injectedAnnotations are additional annotations that will be added to the pod spec after injection