To complete the exercises in this chapter, you will require the following:
- Your own working Kubernetes environment
- The Bookinfo demo application deployed in Kubernetes
- Access to the internet
For detailed installation instructions, refer to Chapter 6, Building Your Own Kubernetes, and Chapter 8, Installing a Demo Application.
You can find the GitHub page for this chapter at: https://github.com/servicemeshbook/istio labeled Chapter 09 - Installing Istio.
The following command should show you whether the VM can resolve the name using DNS:
$ dig +search +noall +answer ibm.com
ibm.com. 20850 IN A 129.42.38.10
We are using Istio 1.3.5 at the time of writing this book. You can get the examples used in this book for Istio 1.3.5 by switching the branch to 1.3.5.
As technology evolves and changes quickly, the examples given here may not work with the later releases of Istio. It is recommended that you download the Istio version used in this chapter. However, we will be updating https://github.com/servicemeshbook/istio for the newest version of Istio and will publish any errata required for the latest release.