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Version: v2.0-v2.4

Add Deployments and Services with the Istio Sidecar

Prerequisite: To enable Istio for a workload, the cluster and namespace must have Istio enabled.

Enabling Istio in a namespace only enables automatic sidecar injection for new workloads. To enable the Envoy sidecar for existing workloads, you need to enable it manually for each workload.

To inject the Istio sidecar on an existing workload in the namespace, go to the workload, click the , and click Redeploy. When the workload is redeployed, it will have the Envoy sidecar automatically injected.

Wait a few minutes for the workload to upgrade to have the istio sidecar. Click it and go to the Containers section. You should be able to see istio-init and istio-proxy alongside your original workload. This means the Istio sidecar is enabled for the workload. Istio is doing all the wiring for the sidecar envoy. Now Istio can do all the features automatically if you enable them in the yaml.

3. Add Deployments and Services

Next we add the Kubernetes resources for the sample deployments and services for the BookInfo app in Istio's documentation.

  1. Go to the project inside the cluster you want to deploy the workload on.
  2. In Workloads, click Import YAML.
  3. Copy the below resources into the form.
  4. Click Import.

This will set up the following sample resources from Istio's example BookInfo app:

Details service and deployment:

  • A details Service
  • A ServiceAccount for bookinfo-details
  • A details-v1 Deployment

Ratings service and deployment:

  • A ratings Service
  • A ServiceAccount for bookinfo-ratings
  • A ratings-v1 Deployment

Reviews service and deployments (three versions):

  • A reviews Service
  • A ServiceAccount for bookinfo-reviews
  • A reviews-v1 Deployment
  • A reviews-v2 Deployment
  • A reviews-v3 Deployment

Productpage service and deployment:

This is the main page of the app, which will be visible from a web browser. The other services will be called from this page.

  • A productpage service
  • A ServiceAccount for bookinfo-productpage
  • A productpage-v1 Deployment

Resource YAML

# Copyright 2017 Istio Authors
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

##################################################################################################
# Details service
##################################################################################################
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: details
labels:
app: details
service: details
spec:
ports:
- port: 9080
name: http
selector:
app: details
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: bookinfo-details
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: details-v1
labels:
app: details
version: v1
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: details
version: v1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: details
version: v1
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-details
containers:
- name: details
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-details-v1:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---
##################################################################################################
# Ratings service
##################################################################################################
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: ratings
labels:
app: ratings
service: ratings
spec:
ports:
- port: 9080
name: http
selector:
app: ratings
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: bookinfo-ratings
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: ratings-v1
labels:
app: ratings
version: v1
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: ratings
version: v1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: ratings
version: v1
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-ratings
containers:
- name: ratings
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-ratings-v1:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---
##################################################################################################
# Reviews service
##################################################################################################
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: reviews
labels:
app: reviews
service: reviews
spec:
ports:
- port: 9080
name: http
selector:
app: reviews
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: bookinfo-reviews
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: reviews-v1
labels:
app: reviews
version: v1
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: reviews
version: v1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: reviews
version: v1
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-reviews
containers:
- name: reviews
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: reviews-v2
labels:
app: reviews
version: v2
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: reviews
version: v2
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: reviews
version: v2
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-reviews
containers:
- name: reviews
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v2:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: reviews-v3
labels:
app: reviews
version: v3
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: reviews
version: v3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: reviews
version: v3
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-reviews
containers:
- name: reviews
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v3:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---
##################################################################################################
# Productpage services
##################################################################################################
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: productpage
labels:
app: productpage
service: productpage
spec:
ports:
- port: 9080
name: http
selector:
app: productpage
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: bookinfo-productpage
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: productpage-v1
labels:
app: productpage
version: v1
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: productpage
version: v1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: productpage
version: v1
spec:
serviceAccountName: bookinfo-productpage
containers:
- name: productpage
image: docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-productpage-v1:1.15.0
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
ports:
- containerPort: 9080
---

Next: Set up the Istio Gateway