masmix / aws-eks-istio-lab

Getting started with EKS with Istio

Goal

This repo you can use to setup AWS EKS cluster with Istio and sample Bookinfo microservices app, Kiali addon for visualizing your Mesh and other observability tools.

Prereqisities

• AWS CLI installed and configured
• eksctl CLI installed
• kubectl CLI installed
• istioctl CLI installed
• AWS_REGION and CLUSTER_NAME environment variables configured

Deployment

After cloning this repository please execute:

setup variables

export CLUSTER_NAME='my-cluster'
export AWS_REGION='us-west-1'

bootstrap cluster creating

cd ~/aws-istio-lab
git clone https://github.com/istio/istio.git
cd infrastructure
bash bootstrap.sh

It should take a while.

Verification

Istio components

kubectl get all -n istio-system

Bookinfo app components

kubectl get all -n default

Application load simulation

~/aws-istio-lab
bash tests/load.sh

Verify kiali dashboard

istioctl dashboard kiali

Should looks like this

Congratulations

Mission complete!

Destroy

Destroy resources for reducing the carbon footprint and save money!

eksctl delete ng nodegroup --cluster=eks --drain=false
eksctl delete cluster -f eks.yaml

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