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  • helm_release: v3.8.2
  • kubernetes_release: v1.23.8
  • istio_release: 1.14.1
  • Cert-Manager: 1.5.4
  • Strimzi-Operator: 0.30.0 

More information

Istio Best Practices:
https://docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise/latest/setup/prod/namespaces/


Install Istio

Source: https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/install/helm/

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  1. Configure the Helm repository:

    Code Block
    $ helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
$ helm repo update


  2. Create a namespace for "mesh-level" configurations

    Code Block
    $ kubectl create namespace istio-config


  3. Create a namespace istio-system for Istio components:

    Code Block
    $ kubectl create namespace istio-system


  4. Install the Istio Base chart which contains cluster-wide resources used by the Istio control plane:

    Code Block
    $ helm upgrade -i istio-base istio/base -n istio-system --version 1.14.1


Install the Istio Discovery chart which deploys the istiod service:
(enable the variable to enforce the (sidecar) proxy startup before the container start)

Code Block
$ helm upgrade -i istiod istio/istiod -n istio-system --version 1.14.1 --wait --set global.proxy.holdApplicationUntilProxyStarts=true --set meshConfig.rootNamespace=istio-config


Add an EnvoyFilter for HTTP header case

When handling HTTP/1.1, Envoy will normalize the header keys to be all lowercase.
While this is compliant with the HTTP/1.1 spec, in practice this can result in issues when migrating existing systems that might rely on specific header casing.
In our case a problem was detected in the SDC client implementation, thich relies on uppercase header values.
To solve this problem in general we add a EnvoyFilter to keep the uppercase header in the istio-config namespace to apply for all namespaces.

  1. Create a EnvoyFilter file (e.g. envoyfilter-case.yaml)

    Code Block
    apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: EnvoyFilter
metadata:
  name: header-casing
  namespace: istio-confiig
spec:
  configPatches:
  - applyTo: CLUSTER
    match:
      context: ANY
    patch:
      operation: MERGE
      value:
        typed_extension_protocol_options:
          envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions:
            '@type': type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions
            use_downstream_protocol_config:
              http_protocol_options:
                header_key_format:
                  stateful_formatter:
                    name: preserve_case
                    typed_config:
                      '@type': type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.http.header_formatters.preserve_case.v3.PreserveCaseFormatterConfig
  - applyTo: NETWORK_FILTER
    match:
      listener:
        filterChain:
          filter:
            name: envoy.filters.network.http_connection_manager
    patch:
      operation: MERGE
      value:
        typed_config:
          '@type': type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.network.http_connection_manager.v3.HttpConnectionManager
          http_protocol_options:
            header_key_format:
              stateful_formatter:
                name: preserve_case
                typed_config:
                  '@type': type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.http.header_formatters.preserve_case.v3.PreserveCaseFormatterConfig


  2. Apply the change to Istio

    Code Block
    $ kubectl apply -f envoyfilter-case.yaml



Istio Ingress Gateway

  1. Create a namespace istio-ingress for the Istio Ingress gateway and enable istio-injection:

    Code Block
    $ kubectl create namespace istio-ingress
$ kubectl label namespace istio-ingress istio-injection=enabled


  2. Install the Istio Gateway chart:

    Code Block
    $ helm upgrade -i istio-ingressgateway istio/gateway -n istio-ingress --version 1.14.1 --wait


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