Repository contains
- source code, kustomize and docker files for 2 applications: hello-world-service and again-service
- example application dashboard and custom configuration for monitoring components
- scripts to bootstrap demo on minikube
dockerto build applicationsminikubeto run on top ofcurlto download istiohelmto deploy istio operator
To bootstrap demo invoke ./boostrap-demo.sh.
If bootstrap succeeds you will see a banner with instruction on how to expose services.
In that example istio perform following tasks
- Provides ingress gateway with HTTP routing
- Enables mutual TLS connections between services and ingress gateway
- Serves telemetry from the mesh
Observability tools that come together with istio are available after solution is bootstrapped:
- http://grafana.challenge.local - graphing and dashboards
- http://tracing.challenge.local - request tracing
- http://kiali.challenge.local - mesh overview (admin:admin)
Tools cover most of the observability functions except log collection. I would use some managed solution or in-house elasticsearch to performe such task.
In real installations those tools should be either managed separately or replaced with managed solutions (Instana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Datadog, etc...)