spiffe://cluster.local/ns/istio-system/sa/istiod         Leaf     Available        true           e5dfb59150b2ba7f108d93dcec5aa613     2033-03-22T13:04:57Z     2023-03-21T13:02:57Z
spiffe://cluster.local/ns/istio-system/sa/istiod         Root     Available        false          8a516645c40ce76c2c0d27ab4e2461c1     2022-03-18T13:04:49Z     2022-03-21T13:04:49Z

1. Create the `WATCH_NAMESPACE` and `LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE` if they are not created yet.

```bash
kubectl create ns $WATCH_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
kubectl create ns $LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
```

1. From the istio repo root directory, run `go run ./operator/cmd/operator/*.go server`

## Certificates

Ztunnel certificates are based on the standard Istio SPIFFE format: `spiffe://<trust domain>/ns/<ns>/sa/<sa>`.

However, the identities of the certificates will be of the actual user workloads, not Ztunnel's own identity.