stand the container networking layer is
<a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-journeys/users/cluster-operator/foundational/>Kubernetes Cluster Operator</a>.
Istio has the following requirements of the networking infrastructure
underneath it:</p><ul><li><p>The mapping of a service name to workload IP is discoverable by Pilot (this is more a service discovery requirement than a networking requirement)</p></li><li><p>The Pilot discovery process can reach the environment specific API server for service discov