l></li></ol></li><li role=none aria-label="See also"><a href=#see-also>See also</a></li></ol><hr></div></nav><h2 id=injection>Injection</h2><p>In order to take advantage of all of Istio&rsquo;s features, 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: manually using the <a href=/v1.6/docs/reference/commands/istioctl><code>istioctl</code></a>
command or by enabling automatic Istio sidecar injection in the pod&r