istio-charts

Istio Helm Charts

Istio can be installed through Helm, but Istio’s maintainers don’t publish a repository of the Istio charts.

This repository fills that gap.

How to deploy Helm Chart

• Install chart-releaser
• Export variable CR_TOKEN with github token
• Run make
• Push to github which will trigger Environment deploy

Install Istio from Chart

First, add this Helm repository:

helm repo add istio https://comocomo.github.io/istio-charts/

Then, follow the Istio Helm installation instructions, using the charts in this repository for instead of the manifests/ paths:

kubectl create namespace istio-system

helm install istio-base istio/base -n istio-system

helm install istiod istio/discovery -n istio-system

Once those core components are installed, you can install Istio ingress and egress gateways:

helm install istio-ingress istio/ingress -n istio-system

helm install istio-egress istio/egress -n istio-system