Verifying our installation

Verifying our installation is important to ensure that we have got everything right. To verify the installation of Istio, follow these steps:

1. First, check the version of istioctl and the different Istio modules:

$ istioctl version --short
client version: 1.3.5
citadel version: 1.3.5
egressgateway version: 1.3.5
galley version: 1.3.5
ingressgateway version: 1.3.5
pilot version: 1.3.5
policy version: 1.3.5
sidecar-injector version: 1.3.5
telemetry version: 1.3.5

2. The Istio resources are created in the istio-system namespace. Check the status of the Istio pods:

$ kubectl -n istio-system get pods
NAME                                    READY   STATUS     RESTARTS  AGE
grafana-c49f9df64-8q7gm                 1/1     Running    0         2m1s
istio-citadel-7f699dc8c8-flwc7          1/1     Running    0         113s
istio-cleanup-secrets-1.3.5-zvppz       0/1     Completed...