tures, pods in the mesh must be running an Istio sidecar proxy.</p><p>The following sections describe two
ways of injecting the Istio sidecar into a pod: enabling automatic Istio sidecar injection in the pod&rsquo;s namespace,
or by manually using the <a href=/v1.11/docs/reference/commands/istioctl><code>istioctl</code></a> command.</p><p>When enabled in a pod&rsquo;s namespace, automatic injection injects the proxy configuration at pod creation time using an admission controller.</p><p>Manual injection dir