</code></pre><p>(Refer to the canary upgrade docs for more details on steps 2-4.)</p></li><li><p>Verify that the control plane is functional.</p></li><li><p>Label workload namespaces with istio.io/rev=1-8-1 and restart the workloads.</p></li><li><p>Verify that the workloads are injected with the new proxy version and the cluster is functional.</p></li><li><p>At this point, the ingress gateway is still 1.8.0. You should see the following pods running:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true d