spec.podMetadata not copying into deployed pod

[mikstur]

What happened:
I am trying to pass labels into the pod using the spec.podMetadata object, but the deployed pod doesn't result in containing any labels.

What you expected to happen:
Expected the deployed pod to have the labels passed in via spec.podMetadata.labels.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Add a spec.podMetadata like:

  podMetadata:
    labels:
      custom_label: abc