What is a Ziti pod in this diagram?

from Securing Azure OpenAI Applications with OpenZiti

which seems similar to what I want to do now, ie. natural language -> sql query for snowflake databases.

But I can't figure out what the pod is.

What a pod is in general? The kubernetes term or how that pod was deployed?

@dariuszSki can certainly comment more than I, but that looks to me like a kubernetes pod running openziti for ingress to the cluster Workload Tunneling | OpenZiti

Is that what you're looking for?

In this particular example, I used the helm chart to install ziti-host, since I am only hosting the services not intercepting them. https://github.com/openziti/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/ziti-host

Ah, so you used the ziti-host Helm chart as a reverse-proxy to provide ingress to a regular cluster services via Ziti, bypassing the cluster edge.

Yes, that is correct,