The template Istio uses to inject a Sidecar lives in the istio-sidecar-injector ConfigMap. Annotations let you customize the Sidecar’s various parameters, such as CPU usage, proxyImage, and so on. What follows is mainly a summary of the Sidecar injection methods. 1. Add a label to a namespace -> takes effect for the whole namespace Inject the label 1 kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled --overwrite After the application restarts, the Sidecar container will be injected automatically.