your pod annotation for your deployment:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml>kind: Deployment
...
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        sidecar.istio.io/proxyImage: docker.io/istio/proxyv2:0.8.0</code></pre><p>Then replace your deployment with your updated application yaml file:</p><pre><code class=language-command>$ kubectl replace -f $UPDATED_DEPLOYMENT_YAML</code></pre></li></ul><p>or</p><ul><li><p>Use an <code>injectConfigFile</code> that has <code>docker.io/istio/proxyv2:0.8.0</code>