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Instructions for installing the Istio control plane on Kubernetes and adding virtual machines into the mesh.

Downloading the Release

Instructions to download the Istio release.

Platform Setup

How to prepare various Kubernetes platforms before installing Istio.

Quick Start with Kubernetes

Instructions to setup the Istio service mesh in a Kubernetes cluster.

Quick Start with Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Container Service

How to quickly setup Istio using Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Container Service.

Quick Start with IBM Cloud

How to quickly setup Istio using IBM Cloud Public or IBM Cloud Private.

Icon Installation with Helm

Install Istio with the included Helm chart.

Installing the sidecar

Instructions for installing the Istio sidecar in application pods automatically using the sidecar injector webhook or manually using istioctl CLI.

Icon Minimal Istio Installation

Install minimal Istio using Helm.

Installation with Ansible

Install Istio with the included Ansible playbook.

Mesh Expansion

Instructions for integrating VMs and bare metal hosts into an Istio mesh deployed on Kubernetes.

Istio Multicluster

Install Istio with multicluster support.

Quick Start with Google Kubernetes Engine

How to quickly setup Istio using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Upgrading Istio

Demonstrates how to upgrade the Istio control plane and data plane independently.

Requirements for Pods and Services

Describes the requirements for Kubernetes pods and services to run Istio.