* Ensure traffic between mesh workloads is securely encrypted with an Istio identity.
* Be lightweight enough to not limit adoption.
  * This puts a much tighter budget on CPU, memory, latency, and throughput requirements than traditional Istio sidecars.

Ztunnel was not designed to be a feature-rich data plane.

## Thanks to our Contributors

This release contains contributions from many people at Google, as well as:

1e100, a6802739, 4d55397500, a6802739, Abdullah Selek, abenmao, Abolfazl
Shahbazi, Adam Richter, Adam Weiss, Ag Ramesh, Alan Du, Albin Joy, Alex, Alex
Itkes, Alex Sergeev, Alexander Pivovarov, Alexey Romanov, alhkad, Aman Patel,
Amit, Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Amit Srivastava, amoitra, Andreas Eberle, Andrew