## Reference

### Design details

Broadly, `istio-cni` accomplishes ambient redirection by instructing ztunnel to set up sockets within the application pod network namespace, where:

- one end of the socket is in the application pod

profiles listed in istio.io are available by default, or `profile:` can point to a local file path to reference a custom
profile base to use as a starting point for customization. See the [API reference](https://github.com/istio/api/blob/master/operator/v1alpha1/operator.proto)
for details.

## Developer quick start