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Introduction

In Casablanca release, MSB project is integrating Istio Service Mesh with ONAP to manage ONAP microservices. Istio Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer to connect, manage and secure microservices, which brings the below benefits:

  • Stability and Reliability: Reliable communication with retries and circuit breaker 
  • Security: Secured communication with TLS 
  • Performance: Latency aware load balancing with warm cache
  • Observability: Metrics measurement and distributed tracing without instrumenting application 
  • Manageability: Routing rule and rate limiting enforcement 
  • Testability: Fault injection to test resilience of the services

Installation

Currently, the installation scripts are in Github, they will be moved to ONAP Gerrit once the requested repo is created.

Download installation scripts with git clone:

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git clone https://github.com/zhaohuabing/istio-install-scripts.git

Kubernetes Master

We need Kubernetes1.9 or newer to enable automatic sidecar injection, so we don't have to modify every individual ONAP kubernetes yaml deployment files to add the sidecar container, which would be inconvenient.

Istio leverages the webhook feature of Kubernetes to automatically inject an Envoy sidecar to each Pod. Kubernetes API server will call the Istio sidecar injection webhook when it receives a request to create a Pod resource, the webhook adds an Envoy sidecar container to the Pod, then the modified Pod resource is stored into etcd.    

Webhook and other needed features have already been configured in the install scripts.

Create the Kubernetes master by running this script:

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cd istio-install-scripts
./1_install_k8s_master.sh

This script will create a Kubernetes master node with Kubeadm and install calico network plugin. Some other needed tools such as Docker, Kubectl and Helm will also be installed.

From the output of the script, you should see a command on how to join a node to the created Kubernets cluster. Note that this is an example, the token and cert-hash of your installation will be different, please copy & paste the command to somewhere, we will need it later.

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You can now join any number of machines by running the following on each node
as root:

  kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383b

Kubernetes worker Node

Log in the worker node machine, run this script to create a kubernetes worker node:

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./2_install_k8s_minion.sh

You can now join this machines by running "kubeadmin join" command as root:

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sudo kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383b

Please note that this is just an example, please refer to the output of the "kubeamin init" when creating the k8s master for the exact command to use in your k8s cluster.

If you would like to get kubectl talk to your k8s master, you need to copy the administrator kubeconfig file from your master to your workstation like this:

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scp root@<master ip>:/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf .
kubectl --kubeconfig ./admin.conf get nodes

or you can manually copy the content of this file to ~/.kube/conf if scp can't be used due to security reason.

Istio Control Plane

Install Istio by running this script:

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./ 3_install_istio.sh

This script installs the followings Istio components:

  • Install Istioctl command line tool in the /usr/bin directory
  • Install Istio control plane components, including Pilot, Citadel, Mixer
  • Install addons including servicegraph, Promeheus, Grafana, jaeger

Confirm Istio was installed:

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Table of Contents

Introduction

In Casablanca release, MSB project is integrating Istio Service Mesh with ONAP to manage ONAP microservices. Istio Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer to connect, manage and secure microservices, which brings the below benefits:

  • Stability and Reliability: Reliable communication with retries and circuit breaker 
  • Security: Secured communication with TLS 
  • Performance: Latency aware load balancing with warm cache
  • Observability: Metrics measurement and distributed tracing without instrumenting application 
  • Manageability: Routing rule and rate limiting enforcement 
  • Testability: Fault injection to test resilience of the services

Installation

Download installation scripts from ONAP Gerrit:

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git clone https://gerrit.onap.org/r/msb/service-mesh

Kubernetes Master

We need Kubernetes1.9 or newer to enable automatic sidecar injection, so we don't have to modify every individual ONAP kubernetes yaml deployment files to add the sidecar container, which would be inconvenient.

Istio leverages the webhook feature of Kubernetes to automatically inject an Envoy sidecar to each Pod. Kubernetes API server will call the Istio sidecar injection webhook when it receives a request to create a Pod resource, the webhook adds an Envoy sidecar container to the Pod, then the modified Pod resource is stored into etcd.    

Webhook and other needed features have already been configured in the install scripts to enable Istio sidecar injection.

Create the Kubernetes master by running this script:

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cd service-mesh/install/
./1_install_k8s_master.sh

This script will create a Kubernetes master node with Kubeadm and install calico network plugin. Some other needed tools such as Docker, Kubectl and Helm will be installed as well.

From the output of the script, you should see a command on how to join a node to the created Kubernets cluster. Note that this is an example, the token and cert-hash of your installation will be different, please copy & paste the command to somewhere, we will need it later.

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You can now join any number of machines by running the following on each node
as root:

  kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383b

Kubernetes worker Node

Log in the worker node machine, run this script to create a kubernetes worker node:

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./2_install_k8s_minion.sh

You can now join this machines by running "kubeadmin join" command as root:

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sudo kubeadm join 10.12.5.104:6443 --token 1x62yf.60ys5p2iw13tx2t8 --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:f06628c7cee002b262e69f3f9efadf47bdec125e19606ebff743a3e514a8383b

Please note that this is just an example, please refer to the output of the "kubeamin init" when creating the k8s master for the exact command to use in your k8s cluster.

If you would like to get kubectl talk to your k8s master, you need to copy the administrator kubeconfig file from your master to your workstation like this:

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scp root@<master ip>:/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf .
kubectl --kubeconfig ./admin.conf get nodes

or you can manually copy the content of this file to ~/.kube/conf if scp can't be used due to security reason.

Istio Control Plane

Install Istio by running this script:

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./ 3_install_istio.sh

This script installs the followings Istio components:

  • Install Istioctl command line tool in the /usr/bin directory
  • Install Istio control plane components, including Pilot, Citadel, Mixer
  • Install addons including servicegraph, Promeheus, Grafana, jaeger

Confirm Istio was installed:

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kubectl get svc -n istio-system
NAME                       TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                                                               AGE
grafana                    NodePort       10.109.190.71    <none>        3000:30300/TCP                                                        20m
istio-citadel              ClusterIP      10.106.185.181   <none>        8060/TCP,9093/TCP                                                     20m
istio-egressgateway        ClusterIP      10.102.224.133   <none>        80/TCP,443/TCP                                                        20m
istio-ingressgateway       LoadBalancer   10.100.168.32    <pending>     80:31380/TCP,443:31390/TCP,31400:31400/TCP                            20m
istio-pilot                ClusterIP      10.101.64.153    <none>        15003/TCP,15005/TCP,15007/TCP,15010/TCP,15011/TCP,8080/TCP,9093/TCP   20m
istio-policy               ClusterIP      10.104.11.162    <none>        9091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP                          TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      20m
EXTERNAListio-sidecar-IPinjector   PORT(S)  ClusterIP      10.100.229.40    <none>        443/TCP                                           AGE grafana                    NodePort20m
istio-statsd-prom-bridge   ClusterIP      10.109107.19027.7191     <none>        3000:30300/TCP   9102/TCP,9125/UDP                                                     20m
istio-citadeltelemetry              ClusterIP      10.106101.185153.181114   <none>        80609091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP,42422/TCP                                 20m
prometheus                 ClusterIP  20m istio-egressgateway   10.103.0.205     ClusterIP<none>      10.102.224.133  9090/TCP <none>        80/TCP,443/TCP                                                     20m
  20m
istio-ingressgatewayservicegraph        LoadBalancer   10.100.168.32    NodePort  <pending>     80:31380/TCP,443:31390/TCP,31400:31400/TCP10.106.49.168    <none>        8088:30088/TCP                20m istio-pilot                ClusterIP      10.101.64.153    <none>        15003/TCP,15005/TCP,15007/TCP,15010/TCP,15011/TCP,8080/TCP,9093/TCP     20m
tracing istio-policy                ClusterIP   LoadBalancer   10.104100.11.162158.236   <pending>     80:30188/TCP       <none>        9091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP                                           20m
istio-sidecar-injectorzipkin                     NodePort ClusterIP      10.10096.229164.40255    <none>        4439411:30411/TCP                                                        20m

Sidecar Injection

In the transition phase, the Istio sidecar injector policy is configured as "disabled" when installing Istio. So the sidecar injector will not inject the sidecar into pods by default. Add the `sidecar.istio.io/inject annotation` with value `true` to the pod template spec to enable injection.

Example:

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apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: {{ 20m
istio-statsd-prom-bridge   ClusterIP      10.107.27.91     <none>        9102/TCP,9125/UDP     include "common.fullname" . }}
  namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
  labels:
    app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
    chart: {{ .Chart.Name }}-{{ .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" }}
    release: {{ .Release.Name }}
    heritage: {{ .Release.Service }}
spec:
  replicas:    20m
istio-telemetry  {{ .Values.replicaCount }}
  selector:
    matchLabels:
    ClusterIP  app: multicloud-vio
  10.101.153.114template:
  <none>  metadata:
     9091/TCP,15004/TCP,9093/TCP,42422/TCP  labels:
        app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
        release: {{ .Release.Name }}
     20m prometheus name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
      annotations:
   ClusterIP      10.103.0.205     <none>        9090/TCP                          sidecar.istio.io/inject: "{{.Values.istioSidecar}}"

Note: when all ONAP projects are ready for Istio integration, the Istio sidecar injector policy could be configured as "enabled", then the annotation in the pod will not be necessary any more.

Enable Istio sidecar injection webhook.

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kubectl create namespace onap
kubectl label namespace onap istio-injection=enabled

Confirm that auto sidecar injection has been enabled on onap namespace.

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kubectl get namespace -L istio-injection
NAME           STATUS    AGE       ISTIO-INJECTION
default        Active     20m
servicegraphistio-system   Active    10m
kube-public    Active   NodePort 20m
kube-system    Active 10.106.49.168   20m
<none>onap        8088:30088/TCP   Active    8s        enabled                                 

Start a local helm repository server and add it to helm repository list:

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helm serve &
helm repo add local http://127.0.0.1:8879

Download OOM Gerrit repository and build the helm charts. 

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git clone -b beijing http://gerrit.onap.org/r/oom
cd oom/kubernetes
make all  

Confirm that ONAP charts have been successfully created.

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helm search onap
NAME        20m tracing           CHART VERSION   APP VERSION    LoadBalancer DESCRIPTION
 10.100.158.236local/onap    <pending>     80:30188/TCP     2.0.0           beijing         Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)
local/aaf               2.0.0             20m zipkin             ONAP Application Authorization      NodePortFramework
local/aai       10.96.164.255     <none>      2.0.0  9411:30411/TCP                         ONAP Active and Available Inventory
local/clamp             2.0.0              20m

Sidecar Injection

In the transition phase, the Istio sidecar injector policy is configured as "disabled" when installing Istio. So the sidecar injector will not inject the sidecar into pods by default. Add the `sidecar.istio.io/inject annotation` with value `true` to the pod template spec to enable injection.

Note: when all ONAP projects are ready for Istio integration, the Istio sidecar injector policy could be configured as "enabled", the annotation in the pod will not be necessary any more.

Enable Istio sidecar injection webhook.

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kubectl create namespace onap
kubectl label namespace onap istio-injection=enabled

Confirm that auto sidecar injection has been enabled on onap namespace.

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kubectl get namespace -L istio-injection
NAME             ONAP Clamp
local/cli               2.0.0                           ONAP Command Line Interface
local/consul            2.0.0                STATUS    AGE       ISTIO-INJECTIONONAP defaultConsul Agent
local/dcaegen2      Active    20m
istio-system2.0.0    Active    10m kube-public    Active    20m kube-system    Active    20m onap ONAP DCAE Gen2
local/dmaap       Active    8s  2.0.0      enabled           

Start a local helm repository server and add it to helm repository list:

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helm serve & helm repo add local http://127.0.0.1:8879

Download OOM Gerrit repository and build the helm charts. 

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git clone -b beijing http://gerrit.onap.org/r/oom
cd oom/kubernetes
make all  

Confirm that ONAP charts have been successfully created.

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helm search onap
NAME    ONAP DMaaP components
local/esr               2.0.0                    CHART VERSION   APP VERSION  ONAP External System DESCRIPTIONRegister
local/onaplog               2.0.0              beijing         Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Logging ElasticStack
local/aafmsb               2.0.0                           ONAP ApplicationMicroServices Authorization FrameworkBus
local/aai    multicloud           2.0.0                           ONAP Activemulticloud andbroker
Availablelocal/nbi Inventory local/clamp             2.0.0                           ONAP ClampNorthbound Interface
local/clioof               2.0.0                           ONAP CommandOptimization LineFramework
Interface
local/consulpolicy            2.0.0                           ONAP Policy ConsulAdministration AgentPoint
local/dcaegen2portal            2.0.0                           ONAP DCAEWeb Gen2Portal
local/dmaappostgres             2.0.0                           ONAP DMaaPPostgres componentsServer
local/esr  robot             2.0.0                           ONAP External System RegisterA helm Chart for kubernetes-ONAP Robot
local/log sdnc-prom              2.0.0                           ONAP Logging ElasticStackSDNC Policy Driven Ownership Management
local/msbsniro-emulator    2.0.0           2.0.0                ONAP Mock Sniro Emulator
local/so       ONAP MicroServices Bus local/multicloud        2.0.0                           ONAP multicloudService brokerOrchestrator
local/nbiuui               2.0.0                           ONAP Northbounduui
Interface
local/oofvfc               2.0.0                           ONAP Optimization FrameworkVirtual Function Controller (VF-C)
local/policyvid               2.0.0                           ONAP PolicyVirtual AdministrationInfrastructure PointDeployment
local/portalvnfsdk            2.0.0                           ONAP Web Portal
local/postgres          2.0.0                           ONAP Postgres Server
local/robot             2.0.0                           A helm Chart for kubernetes-ONAP Robot
local/sdnc-prom         2.0.0                           ONAP SDNC Policy Driven Ownership Management
local/sniro-emulator    2.0.0                           ONAP Mock Sniro Emulator
local/so                2.0.0                           ONAP Service Orchestrator
local/uui               2.0.0                           ONAP uui
local/vfc               2.0.0                           ONAP Virtual Function Controller (VF-C)
local/vid               2.0.0                           ONAP Virtual Infrastructure Deployment
local/vnfsdk            2.0.0                           ONAP VNF SDK

In Casablanca, MSB project is working with VF-C and MultiCloud to verify Istio integration, so we are focusing on these three projects right now. More projects will engage later.

Install MSB using local/onap chart. We don't  use local/msb  because local/onap  chart also does some initialization setup which is needed for onap components, such as creating service accouts. 

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helm install local/onap -n msb --namespace onap -f onap/resources/environments/disable-allcharts.yaml --set msb.enabled=true

Then install VFC and MultiCloud .

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helm install local/vfc -n vfc --namespace onap
helm install local/multicloud -n multicloud --namespace onapVNF SDK

Install local/onap chart.  Local/onap chart will do some initialization setup which is needed for onap components, such as creating service accounts. 

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helm install local/onap -n common --namespace onap -f onap/resources/environments/disable-allcharts.yaml

In Casablanca, MSB project is working with VF-C and MultiCloud as pilot projects, we would like to roll out it to the other ONAP projects after verifying the integration and Istio features.

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helm install local/msb -n msb --namespace onap
helm install local/vfc -n vfc --namespace onap
helm install local/multicloud -n multicloud --namespace onap

Note that you can also install other ONAP projects with helm install if they are needed. But Istio sidecar will not be injected to their Pods by default.

Confirm that ONAP microservices have been started

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kubectl get all -n onap
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/msb-kube2msb-77ccb675dd-rhfn7 1/1 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-consul-646987f5cf-qms5v 2/2 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-discovery-7647f6476f-cl6xw 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-eag-d678c65d6-fmfn6 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/msb-msb-iag-647d5f998c-dc766 3/3 Running 0 3h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-5679bd9876-tzxzw 2/2 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-ocata-774579596-f7smf 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-vio-8c7dbc8d5-lfcw6 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/multicloud-multicloud-windriver-85b595675d-5vx45 3/3 Running 0 1h
pod/vfc-vfc-catalog-79764dfd8f-rkx6f 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-ems-driver-75bc68b946-6r6r6 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-generic-vnfm-driver-69bf778bfd-pscjn 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-huawei-vnfm-driver-8574569f4c-8jwc4 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-juju-vnfm-driver-6dfd876bb8-bh7dq 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-multivim-proxy-58c7bd47dc-7qdtd 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nokia-v2vnfm-driver-7b77c469bd-krfrw 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nokia-vnfm-driver-98fbdb5b5-p9zqw 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-nslcm-74956bb876-v9kbt 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-resmgr-57dc4c98b5-dzp7f 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnflcm-6f9dc7df44-hncf4 2/2 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnfmgr-5585c688c6-7qrnp 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-vnfres-54bc985599-9zkqn 2/2 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-workflow-6db56f95b9-np8tg 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-workflow-engine-7fb49fd974-kcb8q 1/1 Running 1 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-zte-sdnc-driver-585d449797-87nhp 1/1 Running 0 2d
pod/vfc-vfc-zte-vnfm-driver-59d4756fbc-rpn9v 2/2 Running 0 2d

NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/msb-consul NodePort 10.96.255.198 <none> 8500:30285/TCP 3h
service/msb-discovery NodePort 10.105.163.81 <none> 10081:30281/TCP 3h
service/msb-eag NodePort 10.100.221.66 <none> 80:30282/TCP,443:30284/TCP 3h
service/msb-iag NodePort 10.96.179.117 <none> 80:30280/TCP,443:30283/TCP 3h
service/multicloud NodePort 10.102.72.237 <none> 9001:30291/TCP 1h
service/multicloud-ocata NodePort 10.99.131.129 <none> 9006:30293/TCP 1h
service/multicloud-vio NodePort 10.111.175.58 <none> 9004:30292/TCP 1h
service/multicloud-windriver NodePort 10.110.92.61 <none> 9005:30294/TCP 1h
service/vfc-catalog ClusterIP 10.99.98.115 <none> 8806/TCP 2d
service/vfc-ems-driver ClusterIP 10.96.189.14 <none> 8206/TCP 2d
service/vfc-generic-vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.109.48.184 <none> 8484/TCP 2d
service/vfc-huawei-vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.104.208.38 <none> 8482/TCP,8483/TCP 2d
service/vfc-juju-vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.96.182.14 <none> 8483/TCP 2d
service/vfc-multivim-proxy ClusterIP 10.107.106.216 <none> 8481/TCP 2d
service/vfc-nokia-v2vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.107.12.32 <none> 8089/TCP 2d
service/vfc-nokia-vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.102.179.150 <none> 8486/TCP 2d
service/vfc-nslcm ClusterIP 10.106.43.164 <none> 8403/TCP 2d
service/vfc-resmgr ClusterIP 10.98.174.184 <none> 8480/TCP 2d
service/vfc-vnflcm ClusterIP 10.108.132.123 <none> 8801/TCP 2d
service/vfc-vnfmgr ClusterIP 10.108.59.102 <none> 8803/TCP 2d
service/vfc-vnfres ClusterIP 10.111.85.161 <none> 8802/TCP 2d
service/vfc-workflow ClusterIP 10.97.184.206 <none> 10550/TCP 2d
service/vfc-workflow-engine ClusterIP 10.109.175.61 <none> 8080/TCP 2
service/vfc-zte-sdnc-driver ClusterIP 10.103.94.142 <none> 8411/TCP 2d
service/vfc-zte-vnfm-driver ClusterIP 10.108.146.237 <none> 8410/TCP 2d

You can open the MSB portal http://Node_IP:30280/iui/microservices/default.html in the browser to see all the registered services.

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Explore Istio Features

Distributed Tracing

First, let's generate some traffics in the application, access the following URLs with curl command or open them in the browser

http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud/v0/swagger.json

http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud-vio/v0/swagger.json

http://node_ip:30280/api/multicloud-ocata/v0/swagger.json

Then open your browser at http://tracing_node_ip:tracing_node_port/, you should see something similar to the following:

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Note

  • Tracing_node_port can be found by 'kubctl get svc -n istio-system'.
  • ONAP microservices need to propagate the appropriate HTTP headers so that when the proxies send span information, the spans can be correlated correctly into a single trace.

Service Graph

Istio provides a Servicegraph service which generates and visualizes graph representations of the services in the mesh.

Open your browser at http://node_ip:30088/dotviz or http://node_ip:30088/force/forcegraph.html, you should see the service graph:

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Metrics Visualization

Istio automatically gathers telemetry for services in a mesh. A Prometheus adapter is plugged into Mixer to serve the generated metric data. A Grafana addon is pre-configured with a Prometheus data source and has an Istio dashboard installed for the metric visualization.

Open your browser at http://node_ip:30300, you should see the Grafana Istio dashboard:

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