* Ensure traffic between mesh workloads is securely encrypted with an Istio identity.
* Be lightweight enough to not limit adoption.
  * This puts a much tighter budget on CPU, memory, latency, and throughput requirements than traditional Istio sidecars.

Ztunnel was not designed to be a feature-rich data plane.

  // volumeNamespace specifies the scope of the volume within StorageOS.  If no
  // namespace is specified then the Pod's namespace will be used.  This allows the
  // Kubernetes name scoping to be mirrored within StorageOS for tighter integration.
  // Set VolumeName to any name to override the default behaviour.
  // Set to "default" if you are not using namespaces within StorageOS.
  // Namespaces that do not pre-exist within StorageOS will be created.

    app: istiod
    istio: pilot
    release: {{ .Release.Name }}
spec:
  ports:
    - port: 15010
      name: grpc-xds # plaintext
      protocol: TCP
    - port: 15012
      name: https-dns # mTLS with k8s-signed cert
      protocol: TCP
    - port: 443
      name: https-webhook # validation and injection
      targetPort: 15017
      protocol: TCP
    - port: 15014
      name: http-monitoring # prometheus stats