By default, K3s uses the Traefik ingress controller and Klipper service load balancer to expose services. But this can be replaced with a MetalLB load balancer and Istio ingress controller. K3s is perfectly capable of handling Istio operators, gateways, and virtual services if you want the advanced policy, security, and observability offered by Istio. In … Kubernetes: K3s with multiple Istio ingress gateways
microk8s has convenient out-of-the-box support for MetalLB and an NGINX ingress controller. But microk8s is also perfectly capable of handling Istio operators, gateways, and virtual services if you want the advanced policy, security, and observability offered by Istio. In this article, we will install the Istio Operator, and allow it to create the Istio Ingress … Kubernetes: microk8s with multiple Istio ingress gateways
If your istio ingress Gateway is in a different namespace than your VirtualService, then you need to make sure you prefix the gateway reference with that namespace. For example, if your istio ingress Gateway is in the ‘default’ namespace, yet your Deployment, Service, and VirtualService are in the namespace ‘helloworld’. apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3 kind: VirtualService metadata: … Kubernetes: istio Gateway in a different namespace than VirtualService