Istio on AWS

Installing Istio

In order to install istio.io, first we are goingt to download the source into local machine by using below command, at the time this document is written, current version of istio.io is 1.11.2

curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -

move to istio folder installation

cd istio-1.11.2

Add the istioctl client to your path (Linux or macOS):

export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH

Then, one can start to install istio on the cluster

istioctl install --set profile=demo -y

Please noted, that we are going to install the demo application. Next step is to create the default namespace for sidecar injection.

kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled

Next, deploy the Bookinfo sample application.

kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

Inspecting the installation result.

kubectl get pod

Output :

NAME                              READY   STATUS            RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-79f774bdb9-2vfgq       0/2     PodInitializing   0          9s
productpage-v1-6b746f74dc-lp2dh   0/2     PodInitializing   0          3s
ratings-v1-b6994bb9-6hftr         0/2     PodInitializing   0          7s
reviews-v1-545db77b95-rt69k       0/2     PodInitializing   0          6s
reviews-v2-7bf8c9648f-tvgn6       0/2     PodInitializing   0          5s
reviews-v3-84779c7bbc-trknm       0/2     PodInitializing   0          4s

kubectl get services NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE details ClusterIP 10.100.109.10 <none> 9080/TCP 21s kubernetes ClusterIP 10.100.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 68m productpage ClusterIP 10.100.151.213 <none> 9080/TCP 15s ratings ClusterIP 10.100.1.63 <none> 9080/TCP 20s reviews ClusterIP 10.100.119.183 <none> 9080/TCP 18s