case "${KUBERNETES_CNI:-}" in 

    "calico")
      echo "Installing Calico CNI"
      install_calico "" "$(dirname "$CONFIG")"
      ;;

    "")
      # perfectly fine, we accepted the default KinD CNI
      ;;

    *)
      # we don't know what to do but we've got no CNI, return non-zero
      echo "${KUBERNETES_CNI} is not recognized. Supported options are \"calico\" or do not set the variable to use default."

The details for the deployment & installation of this plugin were pretty much lifted directly from the
[Calico CNI plugin](https://github.com/projectcalico/cni-plugin).

Specifically:

- The CNI installation script is containerized and deployed as a daemonset in k8s.  The relevant calico k8s manifests were used as the model for the istio-cni plugin's manifest: