Sidecar Injection

✓ Guardrail Istio Guardrails Experimental Deployment And Infrastructure

istio.sidecar-injection

Requires namespaces running mesh workloads to have sidecar injection enabled (istio-injection=enabled or an istio.io/rev label) and flags workloads that opt out via sidecar.istio.io/inject: "false". Without the sidecar a workload silently bypasses mesh mTLS, authz, and telemetry.

sidecar injection istio-injection envoy sidecar mesh membership istio.io/rev

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Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Sidecar Injection with each collector.

Sidecar Injection + Istio Collector Provides parsed Istio mesh config that these policies evaluate

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Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml

policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/istio@v1.0.5
    include: [sidecar-injection]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the Istio Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

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↓ Integrations Gather Data

Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans

{ } Centralized as JSON

All data merged into each component's unified metadata document

✓ This Guardrail Checks Current

Sidecar Injection runs and provides pass/fail feedback

Configuration Options

These inputs can be configured in your lunar-config.yml to customize how the parent policy (and this guardrail) behaves.

Input	Required	Default	Description
`required_mtls_mode`	Optional	`STRICT`	Required mesh-wide mTLS mode for the mtls-strict check (STRICT or PERMISSIVE)

Istio Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the Istio Guardrails policy, which includes 7 guardrails for deployment and infrastructure.

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