---
id: service-mesh-istio-sidecar-live
name: "Istio Sidecar Mesh — Live mTLS Verification"
description: >-
  Installs istio/base + istio/istiod, pre-labels the product namespace istio-injection=enabled via
  raw_manifest, deploys the chart with mesh.inject=true, and proves: (1) istiod is Ready and the
  sidecar injector webhook is present, (2) every product pod has exactly 2 containers including
  istio-proxy, (3) in-mesh traffic to the product Service returns HTTP 200 and the connection is
  mTLS — confirmed via istio-proxy stats reporting non-zero inbound SSL handshakes. Emits a PASS
  artifact bundle with 2-container pod manifest, applied-overrides recording inject: true, and
  versions.json.
labels: {customer: any, profile: mesh}
cluster:
  provider: kind
  k8s_version: v1.36.1
  preinstall:
    - kind: helm
      chart: istio/base
      version: 1.27.9
      release: istio-base
      namespace: istio-system
      repo:
        name: istio
        url: "https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts"
      values: {}
      wait: helm-deployed
      wait_timeout: 2m
    - kind: helm
      chart: istio/istiod
      version: 1.27.9
      release: istiod
      namespace: istio-system
      repo:
        name: istio
        url: "https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts"
      values:
        pilot:
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: "100m"
              memory: "384Mi"
        global:
          proxy:
            holdApplicationUntilProxyStarts: true
      wait: pods-ready
      wait_timeout: 5m
    - kind: raw_manifest
      path: chart-test/fixtures/service-mesh/istio-inject-namespace.yaml
  helm_timeout: 10m
product:
  chart: ./chart
  release: sample
  namespace: sample
  set:
    mesh.inject: "true"
asserts:
  - type: helm-status-deployed
    release: istio-base
    namespace: istio-system
  - type: helm-status-deployed
    release: istiod
    namespace: istio-system
  - type: helm-status-deployed
    release: sample
    namespace: sample
  - type: pods-ready
    namespace: istio-system
    selector: app=istiod
    timeout: 5m
  - type: pods-ready
    namespace: sample
    timeout: 5m
  - type: smoke-script
    path: chart-test/assertions/istio-sidecar-live.sh
tags: [nightly, curated-live]
mechanisms: ['addon:istio', 'mesh:istio-sidecar']
category: service-mesh
integration: istio
tier: live