// the CNI plugin chain, and have a PodIP.
			//
			// If PodIPs exists, it is preferred, otherwise fallback to PodIP.
			//
			// If we get to this point and have a pod that really and truly has no IP in either of those,
			// it's not routable at this point and something is wrong/we should discard this event.
			podIPs := util.GetPodIPsIfPresent(pod)
			if len(podIPs) == 0 {

			iop, err := operatoristio.UnmarshalIstioOperator(by, false)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, err
			}
			return nil, operatorvalidate.CheckIstioOperator(iop, true)
		}
	}

	// Didn't really validate.  This is OK, as we often get non-Istio Kubernetes YAML
	// we can't complain about.

	return nil, nil
}