• Setup a Local Computer

    Setup a Local Computer

    This is work in progress. We will add its sections in pieces. Your feedback is welcome at discuss.istio.io.

    In this module you prepare your local computer for the tutorial.

    • On your local computer, locate the ${NAMESPACE}-user-config.yaml file youcreated earlier in the tutorial, where ${NAMESPACE} is the name of yournamespace. For example tutorial-user-config.yaml.

    • Install curl.

    • Install Node.js.

    • Install Docker.

    • Install kubectl.

    • Set the KUBECONFIG environment variable for the ${NAMESPACE}-user-config.yamlconfiguration file:

    1. $ export KUBECONFIG=./${NAMESPACE}-user-config.yaml
    • Verify that the configuration took effect by printing the current namespace:
    1. $ kubectl config view -o jsonpath="{.contexts[?(@.name==\"$(kubectl config current-context)\")].context.namespace}"
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    You should see the name of your namespace in the output.

    • Download one of the Istio release archives and extractthe istioctl command line tool from the bin directory, and verify that youcan run istioctl with the following command:
    1. $ istioctl version
    2. version.BuildInfo{Version:"release-1.1-20190214-09-16", GitRevision:"6113e155ac85e2485e30dfea2b80fd97afd3130a", User:"root", Host:"4496ae63-3039-11e9-86e9-0a580a2c0304", GolangVersion:"go1.10.4", DockerHub:"gcr.io/istio-release", BuildStatus:"Clean", GitTag:"1.1.0-snapshot.6-6-g6113e15"}

    Congratulations, you configured your local computer!

    You are ready to run a single service locally.