Document istioctl and kiali setup with external control plane

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Document istioctl and kiali setup with external control plane #10494

Open frankbu opened 2 years ago

frankbu commented 2 years ago

We should add documentation on how to configure istioctl and kiali to work with an external control plane setup. For example, several istioctl commands won't work with an external control plane unless the following environment variables are set:

export ISTIOCTL_PREFER_EXPERIMENTAL=true
export ISTIOCTL_ISTIONAMESPACE=external-istiod
export ISTIOCTL_XDS_ADDRESS=https://${EXTERNAL_ISTIOD_ADDR}:15012

Running kiali outside of the config cluster will also require some extra configuration.

whirlwinder commented 1 year ago

Is there any updated documentation on the Kiali + Istio external control plane config? Couldn't find anything specific.