In the end, [after evaluation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c2123cKuYsBDpIon9FFdctWTUIMFweSjgwG7r8l3818/edit), the decision was to move forward with a Rust implementation.
This offered performance benefits that were too large to leave on the table, as well as opportunities to tune to our specific needs.

## Configuration protocol

	// The HTTP port for monitoring
	MonitoringPort int

	// The UDS server address that CNI plugin will send log to.
	LogUDSAddress string

	// The watch server socket address that CNI plugin will forward CNI events to.
	CNIEventAddress string

	// The ztunnel server socket address that the ztunnel will connect to.
	ZtunnelUDSAddress string

	// Whether ambient is enabled
	AmbientEnabled bool

- Configures required iptables, sockets, and packet routing miscellanea within the `ztunnel` and application pod network namespaces to make that happen.

This component accomplishes that in the following ways:

                        redirect or forward (default) traffic.
                      items:
                        properties:
                          destination:
                            description: Destination uniquely identifies the instances
                              of a service to which the request/connection should
                              be forwarded to.
                            properties:

                        redirect or forward (default) traffic.
                      items:
                        properties:
                          destination:
                            description: Destination uniquely identifies the instances
                              of a service to which the request/connection should
                              be forwarded to.
                            properties:

	//
	// We want to do the same thing in ambient but can't rely on podSpec injection. So, do effectively the same thing,
	// but with iptables rules - use `--socket-exists` as a proxy for "is this a forwarded packet" vs "is this originating from
	// a local node socket". If the latter, outside the pod in the host netns, redirect that traffic to a hardcoded/custom proxy

	registerStringParameter(constants.CNIEventAddress, "/var/run/istio-cni/pluginevent.sock",
		"The UDS server address which CNI plugin will forward ambient pod creation events to")
	registerStringParameter(constants.ZtunnelUDSAddress, "/var/run/ztunnel/ztunnel.sock", "The UDS server address which ztunnel will connect to")