Enabling Automatic Sidecar Injection

Automatic sidecar injection is disabled by default. To enable this, set the in the values.yaml on install or upgrade. This automatically enables Istio sidecar injection into all new namespaces that are deployed.

An Overlay File is designed to support extensive configuration of your Istio installation. It allows you to make changes to any values available in the IstioOperator API. This will ensure you can customize the default installation to fit any scenario.

For more information on Overlay Files, refer to the

Selectors and Scrape Configs

The Monitoring app sets which enables monitoring across all namespaces by default. This ensures you can view traffic, metrics and graphs for resources deployed in a namespace with label.

For details, refer to

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Additional Steps for Installing Istio on an RKE2 Cluster

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