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.

                name: my-config-map
              name: my-volume-name
          - path: 'spec.template.spec.containers[0].volumeMounts[100]'
            value:
              mountPath: /mnt/path1
              name: my-volume-name
        - kind: Service
          name: istio-pilot
          patches:
          - path: spec.ports.[name:grpc-xds].port
            value: 15099 # OVERRIDDEN
```