Replace CiliumNetworkPolicies with Istio AuthorizationPolicies, point
the thelounge HTTPRoute at the istio-external gateway, and give each
workload a dedicated ServiceAccount for precise mTLS identity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the istio.io/dataplane-mode label and the AuthorizationPolicies
for thelounge and znc. Gateway was returning upstream connect errors
when traffic transited ztunnel; reverting the namespace to non-mesh
restores reachability. CiliumNetworkPolicies remain for egress filtering.
targetRefs: kind: Service policies require waypoint binding which is not
working in Istio 1.29.2 — WaypointAccepted: False and ztunnel routes
directly to pods bypassing the waypoint. Selector-based policies are
enforced at ztunnel L4 without requiring waypoint.
- Add namespace.yaml with istio ambient + waypoint labels
- Add waypoint Gateway (istio-waypoint) scoped to irc namespace
- Switch thelounge HTTPRoute from Cilium external to istio-external gateway
- Add AuthorizationPolicy for thelounge (allow inbound from gateway-system only)
- Add AuthorizationPolicy for znc (allow all on port 6501 for IRC clients)
- Add namespace: irc to root kustomization, remove dependency on targetNamespace
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