- Default profile: The default profile is meant for production deployments and deployments of primary clusters in multi-cluster scenarios. It deploys the control plane and ingress gateway.
- Demo profile: The demo profile is intended for demonstration deployments. It deploys the control plane and ingress and egress gateways and has a high level of tracing and access logging enabled.
- Minimal profile: The minimal profile is equivalent to the default profile but without the ingress gateway. It deploys the control plane.
- External profile: The external profile is used for configuring remote clusters in a multi-cluster scenario. It does not deploy any components.
- Empty profile: The empty profile is used as a base for custom configuration. It does not deploy any components.
- Preview profile: The preview profile contains experimental features. It deploys the control plane and ingress gateway
To set up a config file with the demo profile: create a file called demo-profile.yaml with the following contents:
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
metadata:
namespace: istio-system
name: demo-installation
spec:
profile: demoNext run the command istioctl install -f demo-profile.yaml
kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled
To check that the namespace is labeled, run the command below:
kubectl get namespace -L istio-injection
To completely delete the istio instalations:
istioctl x uninstall --purge