e>samples/sleep/sleep.yaml</code></a></p><h4 id=more-control-adding-exceptions>More control: adding exceptions</h4><p>There are cases where users do not have control of the pod creation, for instance, when they are created by someone else. Therefore they are unable to add the annotation <code>sidecar.istio.io/inject</code> in the pod, to explicitly instruct Istio whether to install the sidecar or not.</p><p>Think of auxiliary pods that might be created as an intermediate step while deploying an application.