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README.md

Rancher Istio Installers

A Rancher created chart that packages the istioctl binary to install via a helm chart.

Installation Requirements

Chart Dependencies

rancher-kiali-server-crd chart

Addons

Kiali

Kiali allows you to view and manage your istio-based service mesh through an easy to use dashboard.

Dependencies

rancher-monitoring chart or other Prometheus installation

This dependecy installs the required CRDs for installing Kiali. Since Kiali is bundled in with Istio in this chart, if you do not have these dependencies installed, your Istio installation will fail. If you do not plan on using Kiali, set kiali.enabled=false when installing Istio for a succesful installation.

Note: The following configuration options assume you have installed the dependecies for Kiali. Please ensure you have Promtheus in your cluster before proceeding.

The kiali.external_services.prometheus url is set in the values.yaml:

http://{{ .Values.nameOverride }}-prometheus.{{ .Values.namespaceOverride }}.svc:{{ prometheus.service.port }}

The url depends on the default values for nameOverride, namespaceOverride, and prometheus.service.port being set in your rancher-monitoring or other monitoring instance.

The Monitoring app sets prometheus.prometheusSpec.ignoreNamespaceSelectors=false which means all namespaces will be scraped by Prometheus by default. This ensures you can view traffic, metrics and graphs for resources deployed in other namespaces.

To limit scraping to specific namespaces, set prometheus.prometheusSpec.ignoreNamespaceSelectors=true and add one of the following configurations to ensure you can continue to view traffic, metrics and graphs for your deployed resources.

Add a Service Monitor or Pod Monitor in the namespace with the targets you want to scrape.
Add an additionalScrapeConfig to your rancher-monitoring instance to scrape all targets in all namespaces.

Jaeger

Jaeger allows you to trace and monitor distributed microservices.

Note: This addon is using the all-in-one Jaeger installation which is not qualified for production. Use the Jaeger Tracing documentation to determine which installation you will need for your production needs.

Installation

helm install rancher-istio . --create-namespace -n istio-system