- [istio/proxy](https://github.com/istio/proxy). The Istio proxy contains
extensions to the [Envoy proxy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy) (in the form of
Envoy filters) that support authentication, authorization, and telemetry collection.

- [istio/ztunnel](https://github.com/istio/ztunnel). The repository contains the Rust implementation of the ztunnel
component of Ambient mesh.

        - it connects to K8S using the kubeconfig and JWT token copied from install-cni to get Pod and Namespace. Since this is a short-running command, each invocation creates a new connection.
        - If so, calls `istio-iptables` with params to setup pod netns
        - If ambient, sets up the ambient logic.

- `istio-iptables`

```console
kubectl create namespace istio-system
helm install istio-base istio/base -n istio-system
```

### Profiles

Istio Helm charts have a concept of a `profile`, which is a bundled collection of value presets.
These can be set with `--set profile=<profile>`.