diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 4d14a3d3..d659b731 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ rs-check-dir dir *flags:
 ##
 
 validator *args:
-    {{ just_executable() }} --justfile=validator/.justfile {{ args }}
+    TARGETCRATE=linkerd-network-validator \
+      {{ just_executable() }} --justfile=justfile-rust {{ args }}
 
 ##
 ## cni-plugin
diff --git a/validator/.justfile b/justfile-rust
similarity index 71%
rename from validator/.justfile
rename to justfile-rust
index d4d6e8e0..c9dca411 100644
--- a/validator/.justfile
+++ b/justfile-rust
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
-# This justfile includes recipes for building and packaging the validator for
-# release. This file is separated so that we can invoke cargo, etc when building
-# defaults. If this logic were in the top-level justfile, then these tools would
-# be invoked (possibly updating Rust, etc), for unrelated targets.
+# This justfile includes recipes for building and packaging the validator and
+# reinitialize-pods crates for release. This file is separated so that we can
+# invoke cargo, etc when building defaults. If this logic were in the main
+# justfile, then these tools would be invoked (possibly updating Rust, etc),
+# for unrelated targets.
 #
-# Users are expected to interact with this via the top-level Justfile.
+# Users are expected to interact with this via the main Justfile.
+
+crate := env_var('TARGETCRATE')
 
 # The version name to use for packages.
-version := `just-cargo crate-version linkerd-network-validator`
+version := `just-cargo crate-version {{crate}}`
 
 profile := 'debug'
 
@@ -26,12 +29,12 @@ _cargo-target := if arch == "amd64" {
     }
 
 _target-dir := "../target" / _cargo-target / profile
-_target-bin := _target-dir / "linkerd-network-validator"
+_target-bin := _target-dir / crate
 
-_package-name := "linkerd-network-validator-" + version + "-" + arch
+_package-name := crate + "-" + version + "-" + arch
 _package-tgz := "../target/package" / _package-name + ".tgz"
 _package-dir := "../target/package" / _package-name
-_package-bin := _package-dir / "linkerd-network-validator"
+_package-bin := _package-dir / crate
 _package-dbg := _package-bin + ".dbg"
 
 _cargo := 'just-cargo profile=' + profile + ' target=' + _cargo-target
@@ -49,4 +52,4 @@ package: build
 
 build *flags:
     {{ _cargo }} fetch --locked
-    {{ _cargo }} build --workspace -p linkerd-network-validator {{ flags }}
+    {{ _cargo }} build --workspace -p {{ crate }} {{ flags }}