local-istio

Ready-to-go local Kubernetes cluster with Istio installed. Meant to be used as a quick-start for other projects.

Dependencies

The following tools are used locally:

Docker, required
Kind, required
Make, optional. If unavailable, commands can be taken from the makefile and run directly.
Istioctl, optional. A local Docker image is used for running the necessary commands to install Istio.
Kubectl, optional. Not directly needed for creating the resources of this project, but will likely be wanted for interacting with the K8s cluster after creation.

Running Locally

make: Creates local K8s cluster, and deploys Istio.
make clean: Deletes K8s cluster.
make reset: Shorthand for make clean; make. Useful for quickly starting over.

After standing everything up with make, it may take a few minutes for all Istio components to become ready. The make script will wait until all pods are ready.

Once make is finished, the Istio ingress-gateway can be reached at http://localhost:8080.

Services Exposed

Some of the demo profile services that are deployed are exposed through the gateway as well.

Kiali
- Login credentials are admin:admin.

Troubleshooting

Istio won't fully deploy/start