istioctl CLI¶

istioctl is the command-line interface (CLI) tool used for the configuration and management of Istio service meshes.^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-istio.md]

Installation¶

On Windows operating systems, the istioctl binary can be installed directly using the Chocolatey package manager by running the command choco install istioctl.^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-istio.md]

Usage¶

A common operational task involves enabling Automatic sidecar injection for a specific namespace. This allows Istio to automatically inject the Envoy proxy sidecar into new deployments.^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-istio.md]

For example, to enable injection in the default namespace, the following command is used^[400-devops-07-monitoring-and-observability-istio.md]:

[kubectl](<./kubectl.md>) label namespace default istio-injection=enabled --overwrite

Sources¶

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