 or more Envoy-based <strong><em>waypoint proxies</em></strong> to handle L7 processing for workloads in that namespace.
Istio’s control plane configures the ztunnels in the cluster to pass all traffic that requires L7 processing through the waypoint proxy.
Importantly, from a Kubernetes perspective, waypoint proxies are just regular pods that can be auto-scaled like any other Kubernetes deployment.
We expect this to yield significant resource savings for users, as the waypoint proxies can be auto-scaled 