{{- end }}
  {{- if .Values.global.logAsJson }}
    - --log_as_json
  {{- end }}
    lifecycle:
      postStart:
        exec:
          command:
          - pilot-agent
          - wait
          - --url=http://localhost:15020/healthz/ready
    env:
    - name: ISTIO_META_GENERATOR
      value: grpc
    - name: OUTPUT_CERTS
      value: /var/lib/istio/data

# Istio Agent

This document describes the internal architecture of Istio agent.

## High Level overview

![High Level overview](docs/overview.svg)

At a high level, the Istio agent acts as an intermediate proxy between Istiod and Envoy. This is done
at two levels. For distributing workload certificates, Envoy will send [SDS](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/security/secret)

# 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.

// SecretItemDiff represents a secret that has been diffed between nodeagent and proxy
type SecretItemDiff struct {
	Agent string `json:"agent"`
	Proxy string `json:"proxy"`
	SecretItem
}

// SecretItem is an intermediate representation of secrets, used to provide a common
// format between the envoy proxy secrets and node agent output which can be diffed
type SecretItem struct {
	Name        string `json:"resource_name"`

# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

istio.VERSION
LICENSES.txt
# Proxy generated proxy config in integration test
tests/integration/component/proxy/envoy.conf
**/var/run/secrets/
# Certs generated by testing
security/cmd/node_agent/na/cert_file
security/cmd/node_agent/na/pkey
# istioctl bash completion file
tools/istioctl.bash
vendor
# Contains the built artifacts
out/
etc/
var/
# Go compiled tests
*.test
# Profiles
*.prof

# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

  # Revision tags are aliases to Istio control plane revisions
  revisionTags: []

  # For Helm compatibility.
  ownerName: ""

  # meshConfig defines runtime configuration of components, including Istiod and istio-agent behavior
  # See https://istio.io/docs/reference/config/istio.mesh.v1alpha1/ for all available options
  meshConfig:
    enablePrometheusMerge: true

  global:
    # Used to locate istiod.

# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

# This is intended to explore new features coming to Istio.
# Stability, security, and performance are not guaranteed - use at your own risk.
meshConfig:
  defaultConfig:
    proxyMetadata:
      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf