APP pods can not be created if not using 'istio-system' as the Istio namespace to install Istio at the first time

[zhlsunshine]

Bug Description

APP pods can not be created if not using 'istio-system' as the Istio namespace to install Istio at the first time

Step to reproduce:

1. Deploy Istio via istioctl install --set profile=demo --set values.global.istioNamespace=mesh-1 -y
2. Deploy httpbin service via kubectl apply -f samples/httpbin/httpbin.yaml

Observations:
There is no any pod can be created under the default namespace, but httpbin service and deployment are existing.

Expected behavior:
httpbin pod can be created

Version

root@ubuntuforistio:~/istio# istioctl version
client version: 1.11.3
control plane version: 1.11.2
data plane version: 1.11.0 (1 proxies), 1.11.2 (11 proxies)
root@ubuntuforistio:~/istio# kubectl version --short
Client Version: v1.22.0
Server Version: v1.18.8

Additional Information

No response

Affected product area

• Docs
• Installation
• Networking
• Performance and Scalability
• Extensions and Telemetry
• Security
• Test and Release
• User Experience
• Developer Infrastructure
• Upgrade
• Multi Cluster
• Virtual Machine
• Control Plane Revisions

Is this the right place to submit this?

• This is not a security vulnerability
• This is not a question about how to use Istio

[zhlsunshine]

PR merged