Enabling the Istio add-on and running a sample application

In this section, you will enable the Istio add-on in your MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster. Then, you will launch a sample application to show off Istio’s capabilities.

Note

I’ll be using an Ubuntu virtual machine for this section. The instructions for setting up a MicroK8s cluster are the same as those in Chapter 5, Creating and Implementing Updates on Multi-Node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster.

Step 1 – Enabling the Istio add-on

Use the following command to enable the Istio add-on:

microk8s enable istio

The following output indicates that the Istio add-on has been enabled:

Figure 12.16 – Enabling the Istio add-on

It will take some time to finish activating the add-on. The following output shows that Istio has been successfully enabled:

Figure 12.17 – Istio add-on enabled

Before we move on to the next step, let’s make...