Install Istio

We will install all the Istio components using the built-in demo configuration profile. This installation lets you quickly get started evaluating Istio.

The demo configuration profile is not suitable for performance evaluation. It is designed to showcase Istio functionality with high levels of tracing and access logging. For more information about Istio profile, click here.

Istio will be installed in the istio-system namespace.

yes | istioctl install --set profile=demo


✔ Istio core installed
✔ Istiod installed
✔ Egress gateways installed
✔ Ingress gateways installed
✔ Installation complete

We can verify all the services have been installed.

kubectl -n istio-system get svc

The output should look like this


NAME                   TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP                                                               PORT(S)                                                                      AGE
istio-egressgateway    ClusterIP      10.100.167.140   <none>                                                                    80/TCP,443/TCP,15443/TCP                                                     107s
istio-ingressgateway   LoadBalancer   10.100.15.31     abc1fcfe168bb4d9e8264e8952758806-1033162489.us-east-2.elb.amazonaws.com   15021:30819/TCP,80:30708/TCP,443:32447/TCP,31400:31433/TCP,15443:30201/TCP   107s
istiod                 ClusterIP      10.100.133.178   <none>                                                                    15010/TCP,15012/TCP,443/TCP,15014/TCP                                        117s

and check the corresponding pods with

kubectl -n istio-system get pods


NAME                                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
istio-egressgateway-cd6b59579-vlv6c     1/1     Running   0          2m35s
istio-ingressgateway-78f7794d66-9jbw5   1/1     Running   0          2m35s
istiod-574485bfdc-wtjcg                 1/1     Running   0          2m45s