Kubernetes/Istio

Architecture

. | app1  |                | app2  |
  | proxy |  <---------->  | proxy |    # Envoy proxy sidecars


| |  pod  |        | pod |       | pod | | 
| |citadel|        |mixer|       |pilot| |
|      C o n t r o l  P l a n e  A P I   |
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TableHeadline

Envoy L7 proxy	Pilot	Citadel	Mixer	Galley
Dynamic service discovery Load balancing TLS termination Health checks Staged rollouts Fault injection	Service discovery Intelligent routing Resiliency Aware about pods health, what pods are available and sends to the proxy pods that are alive with any other configuration updates.	User authentication Credential management Certificate management Traffic encryption Pods istio-citadel-* It's certificate store.	handles Access control Usage policies Telemetry data (data scraping) It has a lot of modules/plugins. Pods: istio-policy-* istio-telemetry-*	Interface for underlying Istio API gateway(aka server)

Istio on minikube

# Minimum requirements are 8G and 4 CPUs
PROFILE=minikube-v1.17.6-istio
minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --kubernetes-version=v1.17.6 --profile $PROFILE
minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --kubernetes-version=v1.17.6 --driver kvm --profile $PROFILE-kvm2

minikube tunnel --profile $PROFILE
minikube addons enable istio --profile $PROFILE # [1] error

Troubleshooting

[1] - no matches for kind "IstioOperator"

💣  enable failed: run callbacks: running callbacks: [sudo KUBECONFIG=/var/lib/minikube/kubeconfig /var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.17.6/kubectl apply -f /etc/kubernetes/addons/istio-default-profile.yaml: Process exited with status 1
stdout:
namespace/istio-system unchanged

stderr:
error: unable to recognize "/etc/kubernetes/addons/istio-default-profile.yaml": no matches for kind "IstioOperator" in version "install.istio.io/v1alpha1"

Download istioctl

curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | ISTIO_VERSION=1.6.4 sh -
cd istio-1.6.4/  # istio package directory
export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH

# make sure you can connect to k8s cluster, then verify the install
istioctl verify-install
...
CustomResourceDefinition: templates.config.istio.io.default checked successfully
CustomResourceDefinition: istiooperators.install.istio.io.default checked successfully
Checked 25 custom resource definitions
Checked 1 Istio Deployments
Istio is installed successfully