1. By running as a node-level daemonset that:

- listens for these UDS events from the CNI plugin (which fire when new pods are spawned in an ambient-enabled namespace), and adds those pods to the ambient mesh.
- watches k8s resource for existing pods, so that pods that have already been started can be moved in or out of the ambient mesh.

### Ambient

To enable ambient, you can use the ambient profile: `--set profile=ambient`.

#### Calico

For Calico, you must also modify the settings to allow source spoofing:

- if deployed by operator,  `kubectl patch felixconfigurations default --type='json' -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/workloadSourceSpoofing", "value": "Any"}]'`

#### Basic default manifest

The following command generates a manifest with the compiled-in `default` profile and charts:

```bash
istioctl manifest generate
```

You can see these sources for the compiled-in profiles and charts in the repo under `manifests/`. These profiles and charts are also included in the Istio release tar.

#### Output to dirs

    <img src="https://github.com/istio/istio/raw/master/logo/istio-bluelogo-whitebackground-unframed.svg"
         alt="Istio logo" title="Istio" height="100" width="100" />
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These can be set with `--set profile=<profile>`.
For example, the `demo` profile offers a preset configuration to try out Istio in a test environment, with additional features enabled and lowered resource requirements.

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.

These can be set with `--set profile=<profile>`.
For example, the `demo` profile offers a preset configuration to try out Istio in a test environment, with additional features enabled and lowered resource requirements.

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.

These can be set with `--set profile=<profile>`.
For example, the `demo` profile offers a preset configuration to try out Istio in a test environment, with additional features enabled and lowered resource requirements.

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.