Red Hat Istio Service Mesh installation

Self Link: http://bit.ly/service-mesh-ocp

Code tested on Openshift 4.4

Installing the components

In order to install the Service Mesh on your Openshift Cluster follow these steps:

• Run the script 1-all-operators-installation.sh

  • This will install the Jaeger, Elasticsearch Kiali Operators
  • This will also install the Service Mesh Operator
  • Wait a few seconds till the operators are up and running

• Set the env variable: export DEMO_APP_PROJECT_NAME=istio-your-name

• Run the script 2-control-plane-installation.sh

  • This will install the Istio Control plane in the namespace istio-system
  • For the installation to be ready it might take about a minute.

Sample App

In order to test the service mesh, deploy a sample application running:

3-optional-demo-app-installation

URL of the sample app: https://github.com/paolocarta/istio-workshop.git

Sidecar Injection

For automatic sidecar injection this annotation must be specified in the pod spec within the deployment:

      annotations:
        sidecar.istio.io/inject: "true"

Istio Steps for the sample app

After installing the demo-app with the demo-app-installation.sh script go to:

• istio-workshop/istio-rules

There you can find all steps.

A description of all steps can be found in this Google Doc: http://bit.ly/istiolab-ocp-gdoc