Istio on GKE Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to use Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using the Istio on GKE add-on.

Slides

There's a presentation that accompanies the tutorial.

Pre-requisites

We assume that you have a Google Cloud project with Kubernetes API enabled. Installing Istio on GKE explains how to enable Kubernetes API.

We built and tested tutorial on GKE version 1.12.5-gke.5 with Istio version 1.0.3-gke.3.

Steps

• Create a GKE cluster with Istio
• Hello World Istio
• Gateway and VirtualService
• Istio add-ons
• Traffic Management
• Cleanup

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This is not an official Google product.