Istio

Istio is designed for setting up a service mesh, a low-latency infrastructure layer for handling a large amount of network communications across services in Yandex Managed Service for Kubernetes clusters.

Istio provides multiple features:

• Encrypted service-to-service communication in a cluster
• Authentication across services
• Load balancing for HTTP, TCP, gRPC, and WebSocket traffic
• Detailed traffic monitoring based on extensive routing rules

The application contains Istio Ingress Gateway, a component for setting up an entry point for external traffic.

1. Create a node group with at least 6 GB of RAM.

2. Configure the application:

   • Namespace: Select or create a namespace for Istio. We do not recommend installing the application in the default namespace.
   • Application name: Enter an application name.
   • Install add-ons: Select this option to automatically install add-ons: the Kiali management console and components such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, and Loki.

3. Click Install.

4. Wait for the application status to change to Deployed.

• Network traffic monitoring
• Cluster data observability and service monitoring
• Security and policy management

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