Istio Setup Manual

Step1: Download the Istio Folder

Which you have already done in the Install Istio with Helm Setup

Step2: Move to the Istio package directory. For example, if the package is istio-1.11.4:

Try to run this command using Git Bash

cd istio-1.11.4/bin

Step3: Setup the Demo Profile.

This is used when you need to do Manual Installation

istioctl install --set profile=demo -y

Step4: Add a namespace label to instruct Istio to automatically inject Envoy sidecar proxies when you deploy your application later:

kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled

Addons Installation

Step 5: Install the Addons of Istio for Observability

Step6: Install the Addons

kubectl apply -f ../samples/addons/