Using the Istio Addon
istio Addon
istio - Cloud platforms provide a wealth of benefits for the organizations that use them.
Enable istio on minikube
Make sure to start minikube with at least 8192 MB of memory and 4 CPUs. See official Platform Setup documentation.
minikube start --memory=8192mb --cpus=4
To enable this addon, simply run:
minikube addons enable istio-provisioner
minikube addons enable istio
In a minute or so istio default components will be installed into your cluster. You could run kubectl get po -n istio-system
to see the progress for istio installation.
Testing installation
kubectl get po -n istio-system
If everything went well you shouldn’t get any errors about istio being installed in your cluster. If you haven’t deployed any releases kubectl get po -n istio-system
won’t return anything.
Disable istio
To disable this addon, simply run:
minikube addons disable istio-provisioner
minikube addons disable istio
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