Enabling and Disabling Kubernetes Istio Sidecar Injections

We’ve been experimenting with Istio’s Sidecar Injects but it’s been messing with some of the logging on Google Cloud Platform’s Stackdriver logging. So just the cliff notes.

This will enable automatic istio-sidecar injections

kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled

You can check with

kubectl get namespace -L istio-injection

This will disable automatic istio-sidecar injections

kubectl label namespace default istio-injection-

https://istio.io/docs/setup/additional-setup/sidecar-injection/