Based on official Istio Getting Started page

Pre-requisites

An account on an up and running k8s cluster, for example kind

Install Istio and its Dashboards

git clone https://github.com/k8s-school/istio-example
cd istio-example
./istio-install.sh

# Access to istio dashboards for prometheus, jaeger, kiali 
./start-ui.sh

Install Bookinfo demo application

./bookinfo-install.sh

# Launch a few queries through ingress gateway
./bookinfo-query-loop.sh -L 10000

# Display Bookinfo external url
./bookinfo-url.sh

# Tune Istio L7 load-balancing for Bookinfo application
./traffic-management.sh