policy without actually enforcing it.</p><p>The dry-run annotation allows you to better understand the effect of an authorization policy before applying it to
the production traffic. This helps to reduce the risk of breaking the production traffic caused by an incorrect authorization policy.</p><h2 id=before-you-begin>Before you begin</h2><p>Before you begin this task, do the following:</p><ul><li><p>Read the <a href=/v1.20/docs/concepts/security/#authorization>Istio authorization concepts</a>.</p></li><li>