How to Install Istio Service Mesh

Wednesday, Sep 25, 2019| Tags: istio, app development, kubernetes, service mesh, observability

Istio is the most popular and feature rich service mesh for kubernetes available today. Since the official istio documentation can be a bit overwhelming, I am providing below simple steps to install istio on kubernetes.

You will need to have helm installed in order for the below to work. If you don’t already have it installed, then please refer to this earlier article.

We will follow the steps from istio installation docs

1 Download latest istio

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curl -L https://git.io/getLatestIstio | sh -
cd istio-*


2 Install the istio-init chart to bootstrap all the Istio’s CRDs:

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helm install install/kubernetes/helm/istio-init --name=istio-init --namespace=istio-system


3 Install istio

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helm install install/kubernetes/helm/istio --name=istio --namespace=istio-system


4 Verify installation

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kubectl -n istio-system get pods 


You are all done here !!!



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