While a user can just explicitly pass this with `--values/-f`.

However, Istio also provides a feature to bundle these with the charts, which is convenient when installing from remote charts.
For details, see `copy-templates` Makefile target, and `manifests/zzz_profile.yaml`.

Any changes to this folder should have a `make copy-templates` applied afterwards.

effectively just a shim to catch pod creation events and notify the CNI agent early enough to set up network redirection before the pod is fully started. This is necessary because the CNI plugin is effectively the first thing to see a scheduled pod - before the K8S control plane will see things like the pod IP or networking info, the CNI will - but the CNI plugin alone is not sufficient to handle all pod events (already-started pod updates, rebuilding current state on CNI restart) that the node agent cares...

meeting to share your ideas.

This document is an overview of how the operator works from a user perspective. For more details about the design and
architecture and a code overview, see [ARCHITECTURE.md](../architecture/environments/operator.md).

## Introduction

The operator uses the [IstioOperator API](https://github.com/istio/api/blob/master/operator/v1alpha1/operator.proto), which has

# Istio Ztunnel Helm Chart

This chart installs an Istio ztunnel.

## Setup Repo Info

```console
helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
helm repo update
```

_See [helm repo](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_repo/) for command documentation._

## Installing the Chart

To install the chart:

```console
helm install ztunnel istio/ztunnel
```

## Uninstalling the Chart

# Istio CNI Helm Chart

This chart installs the Istio CNI Plugin. See the [CNI installation guide](https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/additional-setup/cni/)
for more information.

## Setup Repo Info

```console
helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
helm repo update
```

_See [helm repo](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_repo/) for command documentation._

## Installing the Chart

# Istiod Helm Chart

This chart installs an Istiod deployment.

## Setup Repo Info

```console
helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
helm repo update
```

_See [helm repo](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_repo/) for command documentation._

## Installing the Chart

Before installing, ensure CRDs are installed in the cluster (from the `istio/base` chart).

or customize the ports to match the old defaults.
See the [security advisory](https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2021-002/) for more information.

#### Other migrations

If you see errors like `rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists` during installation, you may need to forcibly take ownership.

This chart installs resources shared by all Istio revisions. This includes Istio CRDs.

## Setup Repo Info

```console
helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
helm repo update
```

_See [helm repo](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_repo/) for command documentation._

## Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name `istio-base`:

```console
kubectl create namespace istio-system