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Architecture Istio v1.7

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Namespace: <app namespace>
  | app1  |                | app2  |  # main container
  | proxy |  <---------->  | proxy |  # Data Plane (all Envoy sidecar proxies)
  |  pod  |                |  pod  |

Namespace: istio-system
| |citadel|        |mixer|       |pilot| |
| |  pod  |        | pod |       | pod | | 
|      C o n t r o l  P l a n e  A P I   |
 ----------------------------------------

Note: All proxies are collectively named Data Plane and everything else that Istio deployed is called Control Plane


Note: Proxy term meaning is when someone has authority to represent someone. In software proxy components are invisible to clients. proxies


Security Architecture

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Istio components

  • Istio-telemetry
  • Istio-pilot
  • Istio-tracing


Istio components
Envoy L7 proxy Pilot Citadel Mixer[deprecate] Galley
  • Dynamic service discovery
  • Load balancing
  • TLS termination
  • Health checks
  • Staged rollouts
  • Fault injection

Converts Istio configuration into a format that Envoy can understand.

Aware about pods health, what pods are available and sends to the proxy pods that are alive with any other configuration updates.

  • Propagates the configuration to the Proxies
  • Service discovery
  • Intelligent routing
  • Resiliency

Manages certificates, allows to enable TLS/SSL across entire cluster.

  • User authentication
  • Credential management
  • Certificate management
  • Traffic encryption

Pods

  • istio-citadel-*

It's certificate store.

  • handles Access control
  • Usage policies, rate limiting
  • Telemetry data (data scraping)

It has a lot of modules/plugins. Pods: istio-policy-* istio-telemetry-*

Interface for underlying Istio API gateway(aka server). It reads in k8s yaml and transforms it into internal structure Istio understand.


Istio UI components:

  • grafana:3000 - dashboards
  • kiali:31000 - visualisation, tells what services are part of istio, how are they connected and performing
  • jaeger:31001 - tracing


Noticeable changes
  • In Istio 1.6, completed transition and fully moved functionality into Istiod. This has allow to remove the separate deployments for Citadel, the sidecar injector, and Galley.

Istio on minikube

# Minimum requirements are 8G and 4 CPUs
K8SVERSION=v1.18.9
PROFILE=minikube-$K8SVERSION-istio
minikube profile $PROFILE # set default profile

minikube start --kubernetes-version=$K8SVERSION
minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --kubernetes-version=$K8SVERSION --driver minikube
minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --kubernetes-version=$K8SVERSION --driver kvm

minikube tunnel
minikube addons enable istio # [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"


Install bookinfo example app.

Install istioctl cli

The curl ISTIO_VERSION=1.6.8 sh - just downloads istio files into its own directory. It does not install anything 


# Istio 1.7.x - option-1 - more official approche
curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | ISTIO_VERSION=1.7.6 sh -
cd istio-1.7.6/  # istio package directory
export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/git3rd/istio-1.6.8/bin

# Istio 1.7.x - option-2
export ISTIO_VERSION=1.7.6
curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -
export PATH=$PWD/istio-$ISTIO_VERSION/bin:$PATH
export ISTIO_INSTALL_DIR=$PWD/istio-$ISTIO_VERSION

# Check version
istioctl version --remote
client version: 1.7.3
control plane version: 1.7.3
data plane version: 1.7.3 (7 proxies)

# 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

# Verify mesh coverage and config status 
istioctl proxy-status
NAME                                                  CDS        LDS        EDS        RDS        ISTIOD                      VERSION
details-v1-5974b67c8-xbp8l.default                    SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     istiod-5c6b7b5b8f-9npdz     1.7.3
istio-ingressgateway-5689f7c67-gvrh8.istio-system     SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     SYNCED     istiod-5c6b7b5b8f-9npdz     1.7.3
...

Install the control plane

Istio maintainers with increasing complexity of the project that goes against the user friendliness still support helm manifest based configuration although there is fair movement towards the operator pattern. See below for differences, v1.6 and v1.7 still support both methods.


There are a few operational modes to configure control plane:

  • istio operator
    • install - istioctl install with --set or -f istio-overlay.yaml will be overlayed on top of a chosen profile
    • reconfigure - istioctl manifest apply -f istio-install.yaml --dry-run
    • istio operator init installs the operator pod istio-operator. Then using kubectl apply -f istio-overlay.yaml will trigger the operator to sync the changes. Also manually changing istio-system/istiooperators.install.istio.io/installed-state object will trigger an the operator event to sync the config and reconfigure teh control-plane.
  • [deprecated] istioctl manifest install with --set or -f <manifests.yaml>


# Tested with 1.8.2
istioctl x precheck
istioctl          install --skip-confirmation --set profile=default --dry-run # via operator
istioctl          upgrade --skip-confirmation --set profile=default --dry-run # via operator

# Tested with 1.7.3
istioctl manifest install --skip-confirmation --set profile=default --dry-run # via helm chart, depreciating

# >> Kiali and Prometheus installations via istioctl has been deprecated in 1.8.x
# Using istio.operator via 'istioctl' cli, the install can be replaced with 'upgrade'
istioctl install --skip-confirmation --set profile=default \
  --set        kiali.enabled=true      \
  --set        prometheus.enabled=true \
  --dry-run

# Using helm templates, notice the prefix 'values.'
istioctl manifest install --skip-confirmation --set profile=default \
  --set values.kiali.enabled=true      \
  --set values.prometheus.enabled=true \
  --dry-run


Bring all to defaults set by a profile, you can see a number of resources getting removed/pruned. 

istioctl manifest install --skip-confirmation --set profile=default
✔ Istio core installed                                                               
✔ Istiod installed                                                                   
✔ Ingress gateways installed                                                         
- Pruning removed resources                                                            Removed Deployment:istio-system:prometheus.
  Removed Service:istio-system:prometheus.
  Removed ConfigMap:istio-system:prometheus.
  Removed ServiceAccount:istio-system:prometheus.
  Removed ClusterRole::kiali.
  Removed ClusterRole::kiali-viewer.
  Removed ClusterRole::prometheus-istio-system.
  Removed ClusterRoleBinding::kiali.
  Removed ClusterRoleBinding::prometheus-istio-system.
✔ Installation complete


Using istio.operator via manifest yaml
Basic +Kiali,Prometheus +ServiceEntry, mesh traffic only +egress
<syntaxhighlightjs lang=yaml>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>

<syntaxhighlightjs lang=yaml>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default
 values:
   kiali:
     enabled: true
   prometheus:
     enabled: true

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>

<syntaxhighlightjs lang=yaml>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default
 values:
   kiali:
     enabled: true
   # Kiali uses Prometheus to populate its dashboards
   prometheus:
     enabled: true
   meshConfig:
     # debugging
     accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
     outboundTrafficPolicy:
       mode: REGISTRY_ONLY

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>

<syntaxhighlightjs lang=yaml>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default
 components:
   egressGateways:
   - enabled: true
     name: istio-egressgateway
 values:
   kiali:
     enabled: true
   prometheus:
     enabled: true
   meshConfig:
     accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
     outboundTrafficPolicy:
       mode: REGISTRY_ONLY

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>

Uninstall Istio

Uninstall v1.6.8, it's safe to ignore RBAC not existing resources. 

istioctl manifest generate --set profile=default | kubectl delete --ignore-not-found=true -f -
kubectl delete namespace istio-system

Uninstall v1.7.x - view logs 

# Removes istio-system resources and istio-operator
istioctl x uninstall --purge # cmd:experimental, aliases: experimental, x, exp
✔ Uninstall complete

Get info

Profiles are istiooperators.install.istio.io CRD manifests located in istio-1.7.3/manifests/profiles 

# List profiles
istioctl profile list
ls istio-1.7.3/manifests/profiles
default.yaml  demo.yaml  empty.yaml  minimal.yaml  preview.yaml  remote.yaml

# profile configuration
istioctl profile dump demo
istioctl profile dump --config-path components.pilot demo

# Differences in the profiles
istioctl profile diff default demo


Available dashboards commands 

istioctl dashboard <dashboard>
Available Commands:
  controlz    Open ControlZ web UI
  envoy       Open Envoy admin web UI
  grafana     Open Grafana web UI
  jaeger      Open Jaeger web UI
  kiali       Open Kiali web UI
  prometheus  Open Prometheus web UI
  zipkin      Open Zipkin web UI


List all Istio CRDs 

k get crd -A | grep istio | cut -f1 -d" "
adapters.config.istio.io
attributemanifests.config.istio.io
authorizationpolicies.security.istio.io
destinationrules.networking.istio.io
envoyfilters.networking.istio.io
gateways.networking.istio.io
handlers.config.istio.io
httpapispecbindings.config.istio.io
httpapispecs.config.istio.io
instances.config.istio.io
istiooperators.install.istio.io
peerauthentications.security.istio.io
quotaspecbindings.config.istio.io
quotaspecs.config.istio.io
requestauthentications.security.istio.io
rules.config.istio.io
serviceentries.networking.istio.io
sidecars.networking.istio.io
templates.config.istio.io
virtualservices.networking.istio.io
workloadentries.networking.istio.io

IstioOperator

Output logs of istio-operator Kubernetes/Istio-logs-default-install when installing default istio+kiali=prometheus.

Initialize istio.operator

Note: This is being unfolded, check out here the second paragraph. 


istioctl operator init # dump, remove, --force
Using operator Deployment image: docker.io/istio/operator:1.7.3
✔ Istio operator installed                                                                                                                                     
✔ Installation complete

# The operator deployment gets installed in a new namespace 'istio-operator'
kubectl get deployment -n istio-operator  -owide
NAME             READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE     CONTAINERS       IMAGES                           SELECTOR
istio-operator   1/1     1            1           7m14s   istio-operator   docker.io/istio/operator:1.7.3   name=istio-operator

kubectl get all -n istio-operator 
NAME                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/istio-operator-9dc6b7fd7-xf2m5   1/1     Running   0          5m42s
NAME                     TYPE        CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
service/istio-operator   ClusterIP   10.119.252.73   <none>        8383/TCP   5m43s
NAME                             READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/istio-operator   1/1     1            1           5m43s
NAME                                       DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/istio-operator-9dc6b7fd7   1         1         1       5m42s


Istio operator (v1.7.3), this is not super clear to me 

find . -iname *operator*
./samples/operator
./samples/addons/extras/prometheus-operator.yaml
./manifests/charts/istio-operator # it's a chart to deploy operator
./manifests/charts/istio-operator/crds/crd-operator.yaml
./manifests/charts/base/crds/crd-operator.yaml
./manifests/charts/istio-telemetry/prometheusOperator
./manifests/deploy/crds/istio_v1alpha1_istiooperator_crd.yaml
./manifests/deploy/crds/istio_v1alpha1_istiooperator_cr.yaml
./manifests/deploy/operator.yaml # this [1]
./manifests/examples/customresource/istio_v1alpha1_istiooperator_cr.yaml


  • [1] manifests/deploy/operator.yaml

<syntaxhighlightjs lang=yaml> --- apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: 

 namespace: istio-operator
 name: istio-operator

spec: 

 replicas: 1
 selector:
   matchLabels:
     name: istio-operator

... </syntaxhighlightjs>


This API get always installed 

k -n istio-system get istiooperators.install.istio.io # kind: IstioOperator

CRDs aka new kind: objects - demystified

  • Istio terminology
    • Use workload over service that can be misinterpreted by some
  • Envoy terminiology Host, Downstream, Upstream, Listener, Cluster, Mesh, Runtime configuration
    • Cluster: A cluster is a group of logically similar upstream hosts that Envoy connects to, eg. group of pods reviews service v1, v2 and v3.
    • Cluster Discovery Service (CDS)
    • Listener discovery service (LDS)
    • Endpoint discovery service (EDS); cluster members are called endpoint.
    • Route Discovery Service (RDS)


  • VirtualServices and DestinationRules are key resources for configuring Istio’s traffic routing functionality.
    • VirtualServices - is used to configure how requests are routed to a service within an Istio service mesh, define how traffic is routed to a given destination
    • DestinationRules define policies that apply to traffic intended for a service after routing has occurred. A DestinationRules is applied after VirtualServices routing rules are evaluated, so they apply to the traffic’s real destination.
      • subsets - defines a set of pods with common matching label eg. version: v1


  • gateways,gw - taps on to ingressgateway; describe which controller to use eg. plugs into real network received by service/istio-ingressgateway that has label istio=ingressgateway
  • virtualservices,vs - it bounds to a gateway(s), and describes how requests are routed to a service within the mesh
  • destinationrules,dr - applied after vs routing rules to real traffic destination, defines available versions called subsets, they name (using subsets) different revisions available and contain a logic (selector) of what corresponds to each revision.
  • serviceentries,se - holds a list of all endpoints services that they belong to, adds an entry into Istio’s internal service registry, then the Envoy proxies can send traffic to the specified host as if it was a service in the mesh. Allows traffic to be managed for services running outside of the mesh,can set redirect, forward, retry, timeout and fault injection policies fro external destinations. Two purposes:
    • used as external service
    • allows multi-cluster services


  • adapters
  • attributemanifests
  • authorizationpolicies - defines policies of what service can access what workloads
  • envoyfilters
  • handlers
  • httpapispecbindings
  • httpapispecs
  • instances
  • istiooperators
  • peerauthentications - defines what authenticated traffic within the cluster is allowed to access what workloads; used for service-to-service authentication to verify the client making the connection
  • quotaspecbindings
  • quotaspecs
  • requestauthentications - it's for humans outside of the cluster to validate their identity and decide to allow enter the cluster
  • rules
  • sidecars
  • templates
  • workloadentries

Customize istio installation

Configure ingress-gateways

Gateways are a special type of component, since multiple ingress and egress gateways can be defined. In the IstioOperator API, gateways are defined as a list type. The default profile installs one ingress gateway, called istio-ingressgateway.


Ingress Gateway
describes a load balancer operating at the edge of the mesh that receives incoming HTTP/TCP connections.
Egress Gateway
An egress gateway configures a dedicated exit node for the traffic leaving the mesh, limiting which services can or should access external networks, or to enable secure control of egress traffic to add security to the mesh.
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Show default values of the ingressgateway 

istioctl profile dump --config-path components.ingressGateways
istioctl profile dump --config-path values.gateways.istio-ingressgateway


Install istio with ingressgateway servioce as internal AWS loadbalancer: 

istioctl install \
   --set profile=default \
   --set addonComponents.prometheus.enabled=false \
   --set addonComponents.grafana.enabled=false \
   --set addonComponents.kiali.enabled=false \
   --set addonComponents.tracing.enabled=false \
   --set components.ingressGateways[0].enabled="true" \
   --set components.ingressGateways[0].k8s.serviceAnnotations."service\.beta\.kubernetes\.io/aws-load-balancer-internal"=\"true\"
✔ Istio core installed                                                                                                                                         
✔ Istiod installed                                                                                                                                             
✔ Ingress gateways installed                                                                                                                                   
✔ Installation complete

# --set gateways.istio-ingressgateway.serviceAnnotations."service\.beta\.kubernetes\.io/aws-load-balancer-internal"="0\.0\.0\.0/0"


Configure using IstioOperator 

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  profile: default
  components:
    ingressGateways:
    - enabled: true # default is true for default profile
      name: istio-ingressgateway # required key
    egressGateways:
    - enabled: true
      name: istio-egressgateway # required key
EOF
) --dry-run

Ingress Gateways - controller - get details 

# manually inject the sidecar
kubectl -n bin apply -f <(istioctl kube-inject -f httpbin.yaml)

export INGRESS_HOST=$(       kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
# AWS, uses 'hostname'
export INGRESS_HOST=$(       kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].hostname}')

export INGRESS_PORT=$(       kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="http2")].port}')
export SECURE_INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="https")].port}')

# Optional
export TCP_INGRESS_PORT=$(   kubectl -n istio-system get service istio-ingressgateway -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="tcp")].port}')

# Verify
env | grep INGRESS

== Istio-ingressgateway - object and traffic flow The istio istio-ingressgateway works as any other ingress controller, it has service type: LoadBalancer, that creates an endpoint with 4 ports, these in turn make external-loadbalancer to listen on these ports: 

Port  Name        Protocol
8443  https       TCP
15443 tls         TCP
15021 status-port TCP
8080  http2       TCP

so, any incoming traffic via the ext-lb will end up being processed by istio-egressgateway-54884d6c57-mqgbg pod according to it's configuration that in reality is Envoy config built by pilot using using Istio CRDs.


Describe the service and the endpoint 

vagrant@vagrant:~$ k -n istio-system describe svc istio-ingressgateway 
Name:                     istio-ingressgateway
Namespace:                istio-system
Labels:                   app=istio-ingressgateway
...
Selector:                 app=istio-ingressgateway,istio=ingressgateway
Type:                     LoadBalancer
IP:                       10.119.253.21
LoadBalancer Ingress:     34.76.42.198
Port:                     status-port  15021/TCP
TargetPort:               15021/TCP
NodePort:                 status-port  32231/TCP
Endpoints:                10.116.19.12:15021
Port:                     http2  80/TCP
TargetPort:               8080/TCP
NodePort:                 http2  31604/TCP
Endpoints:                10.116.19.12:8080
Port:                     https  443/TCP
TargetPort:               8443/TCP
NodePort:                 https  30747/TCP
Endpoints:                10.116.19.12:8443
Port:                     tls  15443/TCP
TargetPort:               15443/TCP
NodePort:                 tls  31901/TCP
Endpoints:                10.116.19.12:15443

vagrant@vagrant:~$ k -n istio-system describe ep istio-ingressgateway 
Name:         istio-ingressgateway
Namespace:    istio-system
Labels:       app=istio-ingressgateway
...
Annotations:  <none>
Subsets:
  Addresses:          10.116.19.12 # -> target: istio-ingressgateway-86f88b6f6-7mzf7
  NotReadyAddresses:  <none>
  Ports:
    Name         Port   Protocol
    ----         ----   --------
    https        8443   TCP
    tls          15443  TCP
    status-port  15021  TCP
    http2        8080   TCP

Object examples

Gateway, virtualservice

# istio-1.7.3/samples/bookinfo/networking/bookinfo-gateway.yaml
---
# Entry point gateway
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: Gateway
metadata:
  name: bookinfo-gateway
spec:
  selector:
    istio: ingressgateway # use istio default controller
  servers:
  - port:
      number: 80
      name: http
      protocol: HTTP
    hosts:
    - "*"
---
# Routes traffic to destination, could use subset for Traffic Shifting
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: bookinfo
spec:
  hosts:
  - "*"
  gateways:
  - bookinfo-gateway
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        exact: /productpage
    - uri:
        prefix: /static
    - uri:
        exact: /login
    - uri:
        exact: /logout
    - uri:
        prefix: /api/v1/products
    route:
    - destination:
        host: productpage
        port:
          number: 9080
       #subset: v1 # [1] if defined in DestinationRule for the host ('productpage'), it will route to any pods
                   # matching a label(s) defined in the subset

# samples/bookinfo/networking/destination-rule-all.yaml
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: productpage
spec:
  host: productpage
  subsets:   # pod selectors matching labels
  - name: v1 # [1] subset name for the host 'productpage'
    labels:
      version: v1
---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: reviews
spec:
  host: reviews
  subsets:
  - name: v1
    labels:
      version: v1
  - name: v2
    labels:
      version: v2
  - name: v3
    labels:
      version: v3
---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: ratings
spec:
  host: ratings
  subsets:
  - name: v1
    labels:
      version: v1
  - name: v2
    labels:
      version: v2
  - name: v2-mysql
    labels:
      version: v2-mysql
  - name: v2-mysql-vm
    labels:
      version: v2-mysql-vm
---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: details
spec:
  host: details
  subsets:
  - name: v1
    labels:
      version: v1
  - name: v2
    labels:
      version: v2
---
# Split traffic between reviews:v1 and reviews:v3
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: reviews
spec:
  hosts:
    - reviews
  http:
  - route:
    - destination:
        host: reviews
        subset: v1
      weight: 50
    - destination:
        host: reviews
        subset: v3
      weight: 50

ServiceEntry

It intercepts any traffic from pods in the mesh (pods having envoy proxy installed) that matches the spec.hosts then applies meshConfig.outboundTrafficPolicy policy ALLOW_ANY or REGISTRY_ONLY plus additional features like retry, timeout etc. if configured.


It depends on installation option meshConfig.outboundTrafficPolicy.mode that configures Envoy's handling of unknown services, that is, services that are not defined in Istio’s internal service registry:

  • ALLOW_ANY by default, so may not be defined in the configMap/istio, tells Envoy to let calls to unknown services pass through, this also means that Istio's capabilities cannot be applied to these endpoints
  • REGISTRY_ONLY tells Envoy to block any connections to endpoints without a registry entry
kubectl get configmap istio -n istio-system -o yaml | grep mode -m1 -B1


Set REGISTRY_ONLY policy 

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  profile: default
  values:
    meshConfig:
      accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
      outboundTrafficPolicy:
        mode: REGISTRY_ONLY
EOF
)


Example MESH_EXTERNAL service entry adds the ext-svc external dependency to Istio’s service registry. Required when REGISTRY_ONLY policy is set. 

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
  name: google
spec:
  hosts:
  - www.google.com # FQDN of external resource or wildcard prefix
  ports:
  - number: 443
    name: https
    protocol: HTTPS
  location: MESH_EXTERNAL # treat the service as external part of the mesh
  resolution: DNS         # | MESH_INTERNAL - Treat remote cluster services as part of the service mesh
                          # | as all clusters in the service mesh share the same root of trust.

peerauthentications and requestauthentications

peerauthentications
defines what authenticated traffic within the cluster is allowed to access what workloads; used for service-to-service authentication to verify the client making the connection. mutualTLS is used for transport authentication, Authentication policies apply to requests that a service receives.
apiVersion: "security.istio.io/v1beta1"
kind: "PeerAuthentication"
metadata:
  name: "example-peer-policy"
  namespace: "foo"
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: reviews
  mtls:
    mode: STRICT # PERMISSIVE, DISABLE


requestauthentications
it's for humans outside of the cluster to validate their identity and decide to allow enter the cluster, used for end-user authentication to verify credentials attached to the request.
code

apiVersion: "security.istio.io/v1beta1" kind: "RequestAuthentication" metadata: 

 name: "jwt-example"
 namespace: istio-system

spec: 

 selector:
   matchLabels:
     istio: ingressgateway # requires end-user JWT for ingress gateway
 jwtRules:
 - issuer: "testing@secure.istio.io"
 jwksUri: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.5/..
 # ^ it's authentication token not authorization is being evaluated in this policy

</syntaxhighlight>

authorizationpolicies

These can be compare to Kubernetes NetworkPolicies but much more powerful as being aware of L7 and not only packet level traffic.


authorizationpolicies
defines policies of what service can access what workloads; authorisation features provides mesh-level, namespace-level, and workload-level access control on workloads in an Istio Mesh.

There is no need to explicitly enable Istio’s authorisation feature, only the AuthorizationPolicy needs applying on workloads to enforce access control.

If no AuthorizationPolicy applies to a workload, no access control will be enforced, In other words, all requests will be allowed. If any AuthorizationPolicy applies to a workload, access to that workload is denied by default, unless explicitly allowed by a rule declared in the policy. 

code
  1. allow-all policy full access to all workloads in the default namespace

apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1 kind: AuthorizationPolicy metadata: 

 name: allow-all
 namespace: default

spec: 

 rules:
 - {}

---

  1. deny-all policy to all workloads in admin namespace

apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1 kind: AuthorizationPolicy metadata: 

 name: deny-all
 namespace: admin

spec: 

 {}

</syntaxhighlight>


Policies can distinguish in between authenticated and not authenticated users/services by specifying rules. There are reach configuration options so you may want to see docs. 

code

spec: 

 rules:
 - from:
   - source:
       principals: ["cluster.local/ns/default/sa/sleep"]
   - source:
       namespaces: ["dev"]

</syntaxhighlight>

Addons and integrations

Note: In v1.7.x the installation of telemetry addons by istioctl is deprecated, these are being managed now using addons integrations.

Kiali visualisations


Note: Example needs redoing. Istio v1.6.8 requires kiali secret, v1.7.x by default no authentication is enabled 

! values.kiali.enabled is deprecated; use the samples/addons/ deployments instead
! values.prometheus.enabled is deprecated; use the samples/addons/ deployments instead
! addonComponents.kiali.enabled is deprecated; use the samples/addons/ deployments instead
! addonComponents.prometheus.enabled is deprecated; use the samples/addons/ deployments instead

You install kiali manually from scratch or pass arg to istioctl 

# Create user name and password
KIALI_USERNAME=admin
KIALI_PASSPHRASE=admin
kubectl apply -f <(cat <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: kiali
  namespace: istio-system
  labels:
    app: kiali
stringData:
  username: $KIALI_USERNAME
  passphrase: $KIALI_PASSPHRASE
EOF
)


Install - Option 1
cd istio-1.#.#/samples/addons
kubectl apply -f kiali.yaml


Deprecated installation options

Option 2 - istioctl - deprecated in v1.8 

istioctl manifest install \
  --set values.kiali.enabled=true \
  --set values.prometheus.enabled=true


Option 3 - IstioOperator manifest, this is desired configuration defaults are set is not specified, then installed what is set, any resources not default and not specified will be pruned. Deprecated in v1.8.

IstioOperator manifest to install Kiali
Basic No auth
<syntaxhighlightjs lang=bash>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default
 values:
   kiali:
     enabled: true
   prometheus:
     enabled: true

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>

<syntaxhighlightjs lang=bash>

istioctl manifest install -f <(cat <<EOF apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1 kind: IstioOperator spec: 

 profile: default
 meshConfig:
   # For debugging
   accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
 addonComponents:
   # Kiali uses Prometheus to populate its dashboards
   prometheus:
     enabled: true
   kiali:
     enabled: true
     namespace: kiali
     k8s:
       podAnnotations:
         sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true"
 values:
   kiali:
     prometheusAddr: http://prometheus.istio-system:9090
     dashboard:
       auth:
         strategy: anonymous

EOF ) </syntaxhighlightjs>


Verify installation and access the console 

kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/kiali -n istio-system --timeout=300s

# Access the dashboard
istioctl dashboard kiali

Add custom headers

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: httpbin
spec:
  hosts:
  - "*"
  gateways:
  - httpbin-gateway
  http:
  - match:
    - uri:
        prefix: /headers
    route:
    - destination:
        port:
          number: 8000
        host: httpbin
      headers:
        response:            # add to response
          add:
           "key1": "abc"
        request:             # add to request
           add:
             "key2": "def"

Handling Istio Sidecars in Kubernetes Jobs

A Job/CronJob is not considered complete until all containers have stopped running, and Istio Sidecars run indefinitely.

Option 1: Disabling Istio Sidecar injection 

spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        sidecar.istio.io/inject: 'false'


Option 2: Use `pkill` to stop the Istio Process

Add pkill -f /usr/local/bin/pilot-agent inside Dockerfile command and shareProcessNamespace: true to the Pod spec (not the Job spec).


Istio 1.3 and Core k8s Support (unverified) 

<job shell script aka command:>
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.0/quitquitquit

Debugging


Analize 

istioctl analyze --all-namespaces
istioctl analyze samples/bookinfo/networking/*.yaml
istioctl analyze --use-kube=false samples/bookinfo/networking/*.yaml

# Enable live analyzer, it will add to the status field eg.<code>status.validationMessages.type.code: IST0101</code>
istioctl install --set values.global.istiod.enableAnalysis=true


Debug a singular pod or a deployment pods 

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: redis
  labels:
    istio.io/rev: asm-173-6
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: debug-pod
  namespace: redis
  labels:
    app: debug-pod
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: debug-pod
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: debug-pod
      annotations:
        sidecar.istio.io/logLevel: debug # <- enable debug mode
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: samos123/docker-toolbox
          name: debug-pod


Istiocli debug commands 

istioctl experimental describe pod <pod-name>[.<namespace>]

istioctl proxy-status
# | SYNCED means that Envoy has acknowledged the last configuration Istiod has sent to it.
# | NOT SENT means that Istiod hasn’t sent anything to Envoy. This usually is because Istiod has nothing to send.
# | STALE means that Istiod has sent an update to Envoy but has not received an acknowledgement. This usually indicates a networking issue between Envoy and Istiod or a bug with Istio itself.

# Retrieve information about cluster configuration for the Envoy instance in a specific pod:
istioctl proxy-config cluster <pod-name> [flags]

# To retrieve information about bootstrap configuration for the Envoy instance in a specific pod:
istioctl proxy-config bootstrap <pod-name> [flags]

# To retrieve information about listener configuration for the Envoy instance in a specific pod:
istioctl proxy-config listener <pod-name> [flags]

# To retrieve information about route configuration for the Envoy instance in a specific pod:
istioctl proxy-config route <pod-name> [flags]

# To retrieve information about endpoint configuration for the Envoy instance in a specific pod:
istioctl proxy-config endpoints <pod-name> [flags]
istioctl proxy-config endpoints productpage-v1-6c886ff494-7vxhs --cluster "outbound|9080||reviews.default.svc.cluster.local"

Resources

  • gitops-istio Istio on a Kubernetes cluster and automating A/B testing and canary releases with GitOps pipelines example

Training Istio v1.5

Istio v1.7

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