### CmdAdd Sidecar Workflow

`CmdAdd` is triggered when there is a new pod created. This runs on the node, in a chain of CNI plugins - Istio is
run after the main CNI sets up the pod IP and networking.

1. Check k8s pod namespace against exclusion list (plugin config)

**NOTE:** The environment variable `ISTIO_CLUSTER_ISGKE` is assumed to be set to `true` if the cluster
is a GKE cluster.

```bash
ISTIO_CNI_ARGS=
# TODO: What k8s data can we use for this check for whether GKE?
if [[ "${ISTIO_CLUSTER_ISGKE}" == "true" ]]; then
    ISTIO_CNI_ARGS="--set cni.cniBinDir=/home/kubernetes/bin"
fi
iop kube-system istio-cni $IBASE/istio-cni/ ${ISTIO_CNI_ARGS}
```

```

You can mix and match these approaches. For example, you can use a compiled-in configuration profile with charts in your
local file system.

#### Check diffs of manifests

The following command takes two manifests and output the differences in a readable way. It can be used to compare between the manifests generated by operator API and helm directly:

```bash

- if deployed by manifest, add env `FELIX_WORKLOADSOURCESPOOFING` with value `Any` in `spec.template.spec.containers.env` for daemonset `calico-node`. (This will allow PODs with specified annotation to skip the rpf check. )

### GKE notes

On GKE, 'kube-system' is required.

If using `helm template`, `--set cni.cniBinDir=/home/kubernetes/bin` is required - with `helm install`