README.md

Exercise 1 - Accessing a Kubernetes cluster

This is the section to configure your kubectl CLI to point to your Kubernetes cluster. For the convienence we will use Minikube here.

Install Minikube on Mac

The following are the quick steps to install Minikube on Mac if you have homebrew installed:

brew cask install virtualbox

brew cask install minikube

Make sure the minikube has at least 4G of memory(more is better). Otherwise it will not be sufficient to run Istio.

minikube start 
    --extra-config=controller-manager.cluster-signing-cert-file="/var/lib/localkube/certs/ca.crt" 
    --extra-config=controller-manager.cluster-signing-key-file="/var/lib/localkube/certs/ca.key" 
    --extra-config=apiserver.admission-control="NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,MutatingAdmissionWebhook,ValidatingAdmissionWebhook,ResourceQuota" 
    --kubernetes-version=v1.10.0

Else

In case the first approach doesn't work, here are the full references to set up Minikube:

• Install Minikube
• Minikube release
• Vbox download
• Set up Minikube

Clone the lab repo

From your command line, run:

git clone https://github.com/szihai/istio-workshop

cd istio-workshop

This is the working directory for the lab.

Next step

directly go into Istio topics:

Continue to Exercise 5 - Installing Istio

OR go through the Kubenetes basics

Continue to Exercise 2 - Deploying a microservice to Kubernetes