This guide walks you through setting up Istio on Google Kubernetes Engine.
At the end of this guide you will be running Istio with the following characteristics:
- secure Istio ingress gateway with Let’s Encrypt TLS
- encrypted communication between Kubernetes workloads with Istio mutual TLS
- Jaeger tracing
- Prometheus and Grafana monitoring
- canary deployments, A/B testing and traffic mirroring capabilities