te events and does the following:</p><ol><li>Identify Istio user application pods with Istio sidecars requiring traffic redirection</li><li>Perform pod network namespace configuration to redirect traffic to/from the Istio sidecar</li></ol><h3 id=identifying-pods-requiring-traffic-redirection>Identifying pods requiring traffic redirection</h3><p>The Istio CNI plugin identifies pods requiring traffic redirection to/from the
accompanying Istio proxy sidecar by checking that the pod meets all of the following c