Ztunnel was not designed to be a feature-rich data plane.
Quite the opposite - an *aggressively* small feature set is the key feature that makes ztunnel viable.
It very intentionally does not offer L7 (HTTP) functionality, for instance, which would likely violate some of the goals above, without contributing to them.

complex user facing API that tends to grow uncontrollably over time due to design choices in Helm. The underlying Kubernetes resources we configure have 1000s of fields; given enough users and bespoke use cases, eventually someone will want to customize every one of those fields. If all fields are exposed in `values.yaml`, we end up with an massive API that is also likely worse than just using the Kubernetes API directly. To avoid this, the project attempts to minimize additions to the `values.yaml` API...

		go func() {
			log.Debug("handling conn")
			if err := z.handleConn(ctx, conn); err != nil {
				log.Errorf("failed to handle conn: %v", err)
			}
		}()
	}
}

// ZDS protocol is very simple, for every message sent, and ack is sent.
// the ack only has temporal correlation (i.e. it is the first and only ack msg after the message was sent)

      - default
    - key: istio-injection
      operator: DoesNotExist
  objectSelector:
    matchExpressions:
    - key: istio.io/rev
      operator: NotIn
      values:
      - canary
  reinvocationPolicy: Never
  rules:
  - apiGroups:
    - ""
    apiVersions:
    - v1
    operations:
    - CREATE
    resources:
    - pods
    scope: '*'
  sideEffects: None
  timeoutSeconds: 10
---

  // when this priority class should be used.
  // +optional
  optional string description = 4;

  // preemptionPolicy is the Policy for preempting pods with lower priority.
  // One of Never, PreemptLowerPriority.
  // Defaults to PreemptLowerPriority if unset.
  // +optional
  optional string preemptionPolicy = 5;
}

// PriorityClassList is a collection of priority classes.
message PriorityClassList {

  // (typically AWS load-balancers)
  // +optional
  optional string hostname = 2;

  // Ports is a list of records of service ports
  // If used, every port defined in the service should have an entry in it
  // +listType=atomic
  // +optional
  repeated PortStatus ports = 4;
}

// LoadBalancerStatus represents the status of a load-balancer.

          "type": "string"
        },
        "imagePullPolicy": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "",
            "Always",
            "IfNotPresent",
            "Never"
          ]
        },
        "imagePullSecrets": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "name": {

//
// The sign will be omitted unless the number is negative.
//
// Examples:
//
// - 1.5 will be serialized as "1500m"
// - 1.5Gi will be serialized as "1536Mi"
//
// Note that the quantity will NEVER be internally represented by a
// floating point number. That is the whole point of this exercise.
//
// Non-canonical values will still parse as long as they are well formed,

  // according to whatever system is managing the endpoint. A nil value
  // indicates an unknown state. In most cases consumers should interpret this
  // unknown state as ready. For compatibility reasons, ready should never be
  // "true" for terminating endpoints, except when the normal readiness
  // behavior is being explicitly overridden, for example when the associated
  // Service has set the publishNotReadyAddresses flag.
  // +optional

  repeated Carp items = 2;
}

// CarpSpec is a description of a carp
message CarpSpec {
  // Restart policy for all containers within the carp.
  // One of Always, OnFailure, Never.
  // Default to Always.
  // More info: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/carp-states#restartpolicy
  // +optional
  optional string restartPolicy = 3;