In ambient mode, the CNI plugin is 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,...

```bash
istioctl profile dump --config-path components.pilot
```

- `filename`: set parameters in the configuration file before dumping the resulting profile e.g. show the pilot k8s overlay settings:

```bash
istioctl profile dump --filename samples/pilot-k8s.yaml
```

#### Select a specific configuration profile

```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).

To install the chart with the release name `istiod`:

```console
kubectl create namespace istio-system