Installing Istio

This section is the one you must have been eagerly waiting to read. The wait is over, and you are all set to install Istio. Just follow the instructions provided.

The first step is to download Istio from https://github.com/istio/istio/releases. You can download using curl as well with the following command. It is a good idea to make a directory where you want to download the binaries and run the following command from within that directory. Let’s name that directory ISTIO_DOWNLOAD, from which we can run following commands:

$ curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -
Downloading istio-1.13.1 from https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/download/1.13.1/istio-1.13.1-osx.tar.gz ...
Istio 1.13.1 Download Complete!

The preceding command downloads the latest version of Istio into the ISTIO_DOWNLOAD location. If we dissect this command, it has two parts:

$ curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio

The first part of the command downloads a script from...