Getting Started
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This section requires basic understanding of Kubernetes - make sure you do the tutorial in sequence.
First, make sure you already have a Kubernetes cluster up and running.
You need to get the istioctl
CLI to install Istio into the cluster.
Add Istio's bin
path to shell's PATH.
Verify istioctl
is installed properly and with the correct version:
Install the demo
profile of Istio, which comes with the basic settings for most of the things you'll want to learn about. In addition, because the cluster in this guide enabled Network Policy, so we can use Istio with Container Network Interface (CNI).
Validate that Istio is installed. istioctl version
should show you the control plane version
.
In addition, Istio is installed into the istio-system
namespace.
In addition to core-Istio, you can install addons for observability, for example to see distributed traces and out-of-the-box metrics/dashboard.