Istio Hands-On
Content:
| Overview |
|---|
| 1. Setting up Minikube and Istio |
| 2. Installing Bookinfo |
| 3. Observability |
| 4. Traffic Management 1 |
| 5. Traffic Management 2 |
| APPENDIX - Important commands |
Minikube
Start / Stop:
minikube start
minikube stop
To create a tunnel and access a loadbancer, in a new terminal session. When requested, authenticate. Keep this session open and active!
minikube tunnel
Bookinfo App
Access the Bookinfo application:
export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="http2")].port}')
echo http://$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT/productpage
Generate some load on Bookinfo instance. In a new session enter the following commands:
export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="http2")].port}')
watch curl http://$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT/productpage
This will access Bookinfo every 2 seconds until terminated. Keep this running during this exercise.
Kiali
bin/istioctl dashboard kiali
Has to executed from the istio directory, opens Kiali in the default browser.