// we can't just equate proxy workload labels to node meta labels as it may be customized by user
		// with `ISTIO_METAJSON_LABELS` env (pkg/bootstrap/config.go extractAttributesMetadata).
		// so, we fill the `ISTIO_METAJSON_LABELS` as well.
		for k, v := range node.Metadata.StaticLabels {
			node.Labels[k] = v
		}
		for k, v := range labels {
			node.Labels[k] = v
		}
	} else {