Setup FAQ

Ensure that your cluster has met the prerequisites for the automatic sidecar injection. If your microservice is deployed in kube-system, kube-public or istio-system namespaces, they are exempted from automatic sidecar injection. Please use a different namespace instead.

Upgrading from Istio 0.1.x to 0.2.x is not supported. You must uninstall Istio 0.1, including pods with Istio sidecars and start with a fresh install of Istio 0.2.

Please ensure all required containers are running: etcd, istio-apiserver, consul, registrator, pilot. If one of them is not running, you may find the {containerID} using docker ps -a and then use docker logs {containerID} to read the logs.

Your kubectl is switched to use the Istio context at the end of the kubectl use-context istio command. You can use kubectl config get-contexts to obtain the list of contexts and kubectl config use-context {desired-context} to switch to use your desired context.