# Istio CNI Node Agent

The Istio CNI Node Agent is responsible for several things

- Install an Istio CNI plugin binary on each node's filesystem, updating that node's CNI config in e.g (`/etc/cni/net.d`), and watching the config and binary paths to reinstall if things are modified.

As an extreme, the goal is to be possible to run Istio workloads in a cluster without installing any Istio component
in that cluster. Currently, the minimum we require is the security provider (node agent or citadel).

### Install Istio CRDs

This is the first step of the installation. Please do not remove or edit any CRD - config currently requires

[Using boto3](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/extensions/s3zip/examples/boto3/main.py)

## Requirements and limits

- ListObjectsV2 can only list the most recent ZIP archive version of your object, applicable only for versioned buckets.
- ListObjectsV2 API calls must be used to list zip file content.
- Range requests for GetObject/HeadObject for individual files from zip is not supported.