Running mongodb stateful set on Kubernetes with istio - kubernetes

Question

I am trying to setup mongodb on kubernetes with istio. My statefulset is as follows:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: treeservice
namespace: staging
spec:
serviceName: tree-service-service
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: treeservice
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: treeservice
spec:
containers:
- name: mongodb-cache
image: mongo:latest
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 30010
volumeMounts:
- name: mongodb-cache-data
mountPath: /data/db
resources:
requests:
memory: "4Gi" # 4 GB
cpu: "1000m" # 1 CPUs
limits:
memory: "4Gi" # 4 GB
cpu: "1000" # 1 CPUs
readinessProbe:
exec:
command:
- mongo
- --eval "db.stats()" --port 30010
initialDelaySeconds: 60 #wait this period after staring fist time
periodSeconds: 30 # polling interval every 5 minutes
timeoutSeconds: 60
livenessProbe:
exec:
command:
- mongo
- --eval "db.stats()" --port 30010
initialDelaySeconds: 60 #wait this period after staring fist time
periodSeconds: 30 # polling interval every 5 minutes
timeoutSeconds: 60
command: ["/bin/bash"]
args: ["-c","mongod --port 30010 --replSet test"] #bind to localhost
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: mongodb-cache-data
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
storageClassName: fast
resources:
requests:
storage: 300Gi
however, the pod is not created and I see the following error:
kubectl describe statefulset treeservice -n staging
Warning FailedCreate 1m (x159 over 1h) statefulset-controller create Pod treeservice-0 in StatefulSet treeservice failed error: Pod "treeservice-0" is invalid: spec.containers[1].env[7].name: Invalid value: "ISTIO_META_statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name": a valid environment variable name must consist of alphabetic characters, digits, '_', '-', or '.', and must not start with a digit (e.g. 'my.env-name', or 'MY_ENV.NAME', or 'MyEnvName1', regex used for validation is '[-._a-zA-Z][-._a-zA-Z0-9]*')
I assum treeservice is a valid pod name. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I guess it's due to this issue https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/9571 which is still open
I made it work temporarily using the following:
annotations:
sidecar.istio.io/inject: "false"