of the times, you don’t want to manually inject a sidecar every time you deploy an application, using the <a href=/v1.25/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/><code>istioctl</code></a> command, but would prefer that Istio automatically inject the sidecar to your pod. This is the recommended approach and for it to work, all you need to do is to label the namespace where you are deploying the app with <code>istio-injection=enabled</code>.</p><p>Once labeled, Istio injects the sidecar automatically for any pod y