This document provides an overview of the architecture and design decisions around Ztunnel, the node-proxy component in ambient mode.

## 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.

		// this may fail, but it should be safe to ignore according
		// to https://github.com/uber-go/zap/issues/328
		_ = log.Sync()
	}()

	// TODO: implement plugin version
	funcs := skel.CNIFuncs{
		Add:   plugin.CmdAdd,
		Del:   plugin.CmdDelete,
		Check: plugin.CmdCheck,
	}