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Create toggle to enable ambient packages (ztunnel, gateway-api, istio-cni)

As part of enabling an ambient mode deployment for Big Bang it would be helpful to add a singular configuration option that enabled ambient mode across the cluster.

It would look something like this:

# big bang values
istio:
  ambient:
    enabled: true

This option would enable the following packages:

  • istio-cni
  • ztunnel
  • gateway-crds

Plan would be to defer support of opting in package namespaces to a follow up issue.

Edited by Rob Ferguson