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Sidecar Proxy Injection |
Overview |
By default, the Istio Sidecar Injector watches all Pod creation operations on all Namespaces but it does not inject the newly created Pods with a sidecar proxy.
To enable the sidecar proxy injection, set the istio-injection label value to enabled for the Namespace in which you want to enable the sidecar proxy injection. Use this command:
kubectl label namespace {YOUR_NAMESPACE} istio-injection=enabled
With the sidecar proxy injection enabled, you can inject the sidecar to Pods of a selected deployment in the given Namespace. Add this annotation to the deployment configuration file:
sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true"
Read the Installing the Istio Sidecar document to learn more about sidecar proxy injection.