turns the above inputs into the actual types consumed by the connected XDS clients (typically Envoy). This is done by `Generators`, which register a function to build a given type. For example, there is a `RouteGenerator` responsible for building `Routes`. Along with the core Envoy XDS types, there are a few custom Istio types, such as our `NameTable` type used for DNS, as well as debug interfaces.

`Generators` get as input the `Proxy` (a representation of the current client), the current...

  // 	  :443 for https.
  // Both these may change in the future.
  // Incoming requests are matched against the host before the
  // IngressRuleValue. If the host is unspecified, the Ingress routes all
  // traffic based on the specified IngressRuleValue.
  //
  // Host can be "precise" which is a domain name without the terminating dot of
  // a network host (e.g. "foo.bar.com") or "wildcard", which is a domain name

		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		istiodBytes.WriteString(istiod)
	}
	diff := difflib.UnifiedDiff{
		FromFile: "Istiod Routes",
		A:        difflib.SplitLines(istiodBytes.String()),
		ToFile:   "Envoy Routes",
		B:        difflib.SplitLines(envoyBytes.String()),
		Context:  c.context,
	}
	text, err := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(diff)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

     "route_config": {
      "@type": "type.googleapis.com/envoy.config.route.v3.RouteConfiguration",
      "virtual_hosts": [
       {
        "name": "backend",
        "domains": [
         "*"
        ],
        "routes": [
         {
          "match": {
           "prefix": "/stats/prometheus"
          },
          "route": {
           "cluster": "prometheus_stats"
          }
         }
        ]
       }
      ]

		t.Fatalf("Failed to create Comparator: %v", err)
	}
	err = comparator.Diff()
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("Unexpected error during diff: %v", err)
	}

	expected := []string{"Clusters Match", "Listeners Match", "Routes Match"}
	for _, exp := range expected {
		if !bytes.Contains(outputBuffer.Bytes(), []byte(exp)) {
			t.Errorf("Expected %s, but it was not found", exp)
		}
	}
}

  "bridge": "mybridge",
  "mtu": 1460,
  "addIf": "true",
  "isGateway": true,
  "ipMasq": true,
  "ipam": {
    "type": "host-local",
    "subnet": "10.1.0.0/16",
    "gateway": "10.1.0.1",
    "routes": [
      {
        "dst": "0.0.0.0/0"
      }
    ]
  }

		ip, _ := netip.AddrFromSlice(configuredPodIPs.Address.IP)
		// We ignore the mask of the IPNet - it's fine if the IPNet defines
		// a block grant of addresses, we just need one for checking routes.
		podIps = append(podIps, ip)
	}
	// Note that we use the IP info from the CNI plugin here - the Pod struct as reported by K8S doesn't have this info

      # TODO: convert to real options, env should not be exposed
      env: {}
        # Set this to "external" if and only if you want the egress gateway to
        # act as a transparent SNI gateway that routes mTLS/TLS traffic to
        # external services defined using service entries, where the service
        # entry has resolution set to DNS, has one or more endpoints with

              },
              "expr": "sum(irate(pilot_xds_pushes{type=\"rds\"}[1m]))",
              "format": "time_series",
              "intervalFactor": 1,
              "legendFormat": "Routes",
              "refId": "E"
            },
            {
              "datasource": {
                "type": "prometheus",
                "uid": "${datasource}"
              },