Istio the hard-way

We install the following Istio components and try some Itsio tasks.

• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Kiali
• FluentD, Elastic Search, and Kibana (EFK)
• Jaeger

The Istio getting started docs are not sequential per se. I tried to document an end-to-end, sit behind a keyboard and try things out guide to Istio. I also have tried to understand and dig a bit.

We also set up the BookInfo demo application using the getting started guide.

The BookInfo Istio Demo application has the following microservices:

• Productpage Microservice
• Details Microservice
• Reviews Microservice
• Ratings Microservice

BookInfo Services

There are two parts to this so far:

• Part 1: Install Istio and set up Istio sample BookInfo application
• Part 2: Istio the hard way round 2 - working with Istio Routes - VirtualServices

After you run through part 1, you should have Istio running on your local machine with minikube.

Resources

• Istio the hard way, part 1
• Istio the hard way, part 2, working with routes
• Set up Minikube on a Mac
• Kubectl cheatsheet
• Get started with Istio
• Set up Istio command line
• Set up Istio on minikube
• Install sample app
• Overview of tracing
• Set up Jaeger
• Master metrics set up
• Use Grafana
• Set up Kiali
• View example in Kiali
• Stuff you might want to demo in Kiali
• Set up Logging
• Set up FluentD and EFK
• Description of different istio profiles
• Kubernetes CNI driver for Istio if you can't use init containers and side cars
• Using istioctl kube-inject instead of auto injection
• Traffic Management