Getting Started - Prepare Your Environment ## Exercise 1 - Accessing your Kubernetes Cluster ## Exercise 2 - Installing Istio ## Exercise 3 - Deploy Guestbook with Istio Proxy ## Exercise 4 - Expose the service mesh with the Istio Ingress Gateway ## Exercise 5 - Telemetry ## Exercise 6 - Traffic Management ## Exercise 7 - Security
In this module, you will use the Managed Istio add-on to install Istio on your cluster.
Managed Istio is available as part of IBM Cloud™ Kubernetes Service. The service provides seamless installation of Istio, automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.
Run this commmand to install Managed Istio:
ibmcloud ks cluster addon enable istio --cluster $MYCLUSTER
Ensure the Istio pods – especially istio-citadel-*, istio-ingressgateway-*, istio-pilot-*, and istio-policy-* – are all in Running state before you continue.
kubectl get pods -n istio-system
Sample output:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
grafana-6c89cb48cf-v767v 1/1 Running 0 33s
istio-citadel-66dff76d4-r9gsf 1/1 Running 0 7m27s
istio-egressgateway-55fc547574-svkkr 1/1 Running 0 7m27s
istio-galley-7d9dbfd4b9-fw2qk 1/1 Running 0 7m27s
istio-ingressgateway-9c4856497-rpxvs 1/1 Running 0 7m27s
istio-pilot-7ff6949955-d9hbw 2/2 Running 0 7m27s
istio-policy-6b88dd467b-hxhqx 2/2 Running 1 7m27s
istio-sidecar-injector-bc8dddd65-bwhbq 1/1 Running 0 7m27s
istio-telemetry-5f9df6d9cc-wppmf 2/2 Running 1 7m26s
istio-tracing-5777dc949f-k2lhc 1/1 Running 0 33s
kiali-8c696cc97-2cwk2 1/1 Running 0 33s
prometheus-65c985bf4c-g8ch5 1/1 Running 0 7m26s
Before you continue, make sure all the pods are deployed and either in the Running or Completed state. If they’re in pending state, wait a few minutes to let the installation and deployment finish.
Congratulations! You successfully installed Istio into your cluster.