Technical requirements

To complete the exercises in this chapter, you will require the following:

• Your own working Kubernetes environment
• The Bookinfo demo application deployed in Kubernetes
• Access to the internet

You can find the GitHub page for this chapter at: https://github.com/servicemeshbook/istio labeled Chapter 09 - Installing Istio.

The following command should show you whether the VM can resolve the name using DNS:

$ dig +search +noall +answer ibm.com
ibm.com.                20850   IN      A       129.42.38.10

We are using Istio 1.3.5 at the time of writing this book. You can get the examples used in this book for Istio 1.3.5 by switching the branch to 1.3.5.