CANONICAL_REVISION='latest'
CANONICAL_SERVICE='foo'
CA_ADDR='istiod-rev-1.istio-system.svc:15012'
CLUSTER_MESH_CONFIG_VALUE='foo'
ISTIO_INBOUND_PORTS='*'
ISTIO_LOCAL_EXCLUDE_PORTS='22,15090,15021,15020'
ISTIO_METAJSON_LABELS='{"service.istio.io/canonical-name":"foo","service.istio.io/canonical-revision":"latest"}'
ISTIO_META_CLUSTER_ID='Kubernetes'
ISTIO_META_DNS_CAPTURE='true'
ISTIO_META_MESH_ID=''
ISTIO_META_NETWORK=''
ISTIO_META_WORKLOAD_NAME='foo'

particular, ztunnel only supports 2 (custom) xDS resources: [`Workload`](../../pkg/workloadapi/workload.proto) and [`Authorization`](../../pkg/workloadapi/security/authorization.proto). As such, ztunnel does not receive `PeerAuthentication`s directly; when istiod detects a `PeerAuthentication` resource that targets an Ambient captured workload, it computes the effective policy for that workload (taking into account the mesh-wide -> namespace -> workload precedence rules) and sends that policy to ztunnel. The...

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1. Check k8s pod namespace against exclusion list (plugin config)
    - Config must exclude namespace that Istio control-plane is installed in (TODO: this may change, exclude at pod level is sufficient and we may want Istiod and other istio components to use ambient too)
    - If excluded, ignore the pod and return prevResult
1. Setup redirect rules for the pods:
    - Get the port list from pods definition, as well as annotations.

   functions.

  > Note: The service mesh is not an overlay network. It
  > simplifies and enhances how microservices in an application talk to each
  > other over the network provided by the underlying platform.

- **Istiod** - The Istio control plane. It provides service discovery, configuration and certificate management. It consists of the following sub-components:

    - **Pilot** - Responsible for configuring the proxies at runtime.