## Step 1. Make changes in charts and values.yaml in `manifests` directory

Be sure to provide sufficient documentation and example usage in values.yaml.
If the chart has a `values.schema.json`, that should be updated as well.

## Step 2. Update the istioctl/Operator values

If you are modifying the `gateway` chart, you can stop here.
All other charts, however, are exposed by `istioctl` and need to follow the steps below.

  // validity duration so a client must check the delta between the notBefore and
  // and notAfter fields in the issued certificate to determine the actual duration.
  //
  // The v1.22+ in-tree implementations of the well-known Kubernetes signers will
  // honor this field as long as the requested duration is not greater than the
  // maximum duration they will honor per the --cluster-signing-duration CLI

    - If excluded, ignore the pod and return prevResult
1. Setup redirect rules for the pods:
    - Get the port list from pods definition, as well as annotations.
    - Setup iptables with required port list: `nsenter --net=<k8s pod netns> /opt/cni/bin/istio-iptables ...`. Following conditions will prevent the redirect rules to be setup in the pods:

## Configuration protocol

Ztunnel, of course, needs to be dynamically configured in order to make decisions on how it should handle traffic.
For this purpose, we chose to use xDS transport protocol due to our expertise and existing infrastructure, and because the protocol is well suited to our needs.

  // https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels
  // Topology may include a maximum of 16 key/value pairs. This includes, but
  // is not limited to the following well known keys:
  // * kubernetes.io/hostname: the value indicates the hostname of the node
  //   where the endpoint is located. This should match the corresponding
  //   node label.

message GroupSubject {
  // name is the user group that matches, or "*" to match all user groups.
  // See https://github.com/kubernetes/apiserver/blob/master/pkg/authentication/user/user.go for some
  // well-known group names.
  // Required.
  optional string name = 1;
}

// LimitResponse defines how to handle requests that can not be executed right now.
// +union
message LimitResponse {

message GroupSubject {
  // name is the user group that matches, or "*" to match all user groups.
  // See https://github.com/kubernetes/apiserver/blob/master/pkg/authentication/user/user.go for some
  // well-known group names.
  // Required.
  optional string name = 1;
}

// LimitResponse defines how to handle requests that can not be executed right now.
// +union
message LimitResponse {

// MatchCondition represents a condition which must by fulfilled for a request to be sent to a webhook.
message MatchCondition {
  // Name is an identifier for this match condition, used for strategic merging of MatchConditions,
  // as well as providing an identifier for logging purposes. A good name should be descriptive of
  // the associated expression.
  // Name must be a qualified name consisting of alphanumeric characters, '-', '_' or '.', and

PeerAuthentication Implementation in Ambient

The PeerAuthentication resource defines policy for whether or not traffic to a given mesh workload must be mTLS encrypted (through Istio mTLS specifically). While the semantics for sidecars are [relatively well defined](https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/security/peer_authentication/), the architectural differences of ambient workloads have implications for how PeerAuthentication is enforced in that context. This document describes those details....

}

// RuntimeClassSpec is a specification of a RuntimeClass. It contains parameters
// that are required to describe the RuntimeClass to the Container Runtime
// Interface (CRI) implementation, as well as any other components that need to
// understand how the pod will be run. The RuntimeClassSpec is immutable.
message RuntimeClassSpec {
  // runtimeHandler specifies the underlying runtime and configuration that the