Update/old ambient redirect blog #17016
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| Ambient redirection no longer configures the host network namespace as of Istio 1.21. |
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Personally, I think we should add a note explaining that the approach in this blog post no longer applies to the current Istio release, since Ambient no longer uses GENEVE tunnels.
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... no longer configures the host network namespace as of Istio 1.21.
FWIW, in ambient mode, we do program some iptable/nftable rules on the host network namespace to support kubelet health-checks - https://github.com/istio/istio/tree/master/tools/istio-nftables/pkg#ambient-mode-specific-details
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I don't think we typically go and update old blogs, but will let TOC weigh-in here.
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| See [ztunnel traffic redirection](/docs/ambient/architecture/traffic-redirection/) for details on the new approach. |
ztunnel is lowercase.
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We have an old blog post detailing the ambient traffic redirection implementation (before inpod mode). We should add a warning telling users that we no longer configure host traffic.
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