</code> and <code>NET_RAW</code> capabilities</a>
for users deploying pods into the Istio mesh. The Istio CNI plugin
replaces the functionality provided by the <code>istio-init</code> container.</p><h2 id=prerequisites>Prerequisites</h2><ol><li><p>Install Kubernetes with the container runtime supporting CNI and <code>kubelet</code> configured
with the main <a href=https://github.com/containernetworking/cni>CNI</a> plugin enabled via <code>--network-plugin=cni</code>.</p><ul><li>AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and IBM C