kubezero/charts/kubezero-istio-gateway/charts/gateway

Istio Gateway Helm Chart

This chart installs an Istio gateway deployment.

Setup Repo Info

helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts
helm repo update

See helm repo for command documentation.

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name istio-ingressgateway:

helm install istio-ingressgateway istio/gateway

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the istio-ingressgateway deployment:

helm delete istio-ingressgateway

Configuration

To view support configuration options and documentation, run:

helm show values istio/gateway

image: auto Information

The image used by the chart, auto, may be unintuitive. This exists because the pod spec will be automatically populated at runtime, using the same mechanism as Sidecar Injection. This allows the same configurations and lifecycle to apply to gateways as sidecars.

Note: this does mean that the namespace the gateway is deployed in must not have the istio-injection=disabled label. See Controlling the injection policy for more info.

Examples

Egress Gateway

Deploying a Gateway to be used as an Egress Gateway:

service:
  # Egress gateways do not need an external LoadBalancer IP
  type: ClusterIP

Multi-network/VM Gateway

Deploying a Gateway to be used as a Multi-network Gateway for network network-1:

networkGateway: network-1

Migrating from other installation methods

Installations from other installation methods (such as istioctl, Istio Operator, other helm charts, etc) can be migrated to use the new Helm charts following the guidance below. If you are able to, a clean installation is simpler. However, this often requires an external IP migration which can be challenging.

WARNING: when installing over an existing deployment, the two deployments will be merged together by Helm, which may lead to unexpected results.

Legacy Gateway Helm charts

Istio historically offered two different charts - manifests/charts/gateways/istio-ingress and manifests/charts/gateways/istio-egress. These are replaced by this chart. While not required, it is recommended all new users use this chart, and existing users migrate when possible.

This chart has the following benefits and differences:

• Designed with Helm best practices in mind (standardized values options, values schema, values are not all nested under gateways.istio-ingressgateway.*, release name and namespace taken into account, etc).
• Utilizes Gateway injection, simplifying upgrades, allowing gateways to run in any namespace, and avoiding repeating config for sidecars and gateways.
• Published to official Istio Helm repository.
• Single chart for all gateways (Ingress, Egress, East West).

General concerns

For a smooth migration, the resource names and Deployment.spec.selector labels must match.

If you install with helm install istio-gateway istio/gateway, resources will be named istio-gateway and the selector labels set to:

app: istio-gateway
istio: gateway # the release name with leading istio- prefix stripped

If your existing installation doesn't follow these names, you can override them. For example, if you have resources named my-custom-gateway with selector labels foo=bar,istio=ingressgateway:

name: my-custom-gateway # Override the name to match existing resources
labels:
  app: "" # Unset default app selector label
  istio: ingressgateway # override default istio selector label
  foo: bar # Add the existing custom selector label

Migrating an existing Helm release

An existing helm release can be helm upgraded to this chart by using the same release name. For example, if a previous installation was done like:

helm install istio-ingress manifests/charts/gateways/istio-ingress -n istio-system

It could be upgraded with

helm upgrade istio-ingress manifests/charts/gateway -n istio-system --set name=istio-ingressgateway --set labels.app=istio-ingressgateway --set labels.istio=ingressgateway

Note the name and labels are overridden to match the names of the existing installation.

Warning: the helm charts here default to using port 80 and 443, while the old charts used 8080 and 8443. If you have AuthorizationPolicies that reference port these ports, you should update them during this process, or customize the ports to match the old defaults. See the security advisory for more information.

Other migrations

If you see errors like rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists during installation, you may need to forcibly take ownership.

The script below can handle this for you. Replace RELEASE and NAMESPACE with the name and namespace of the release:

KINDS=(service deployment)
RELEASE=istio-ingressgateway
NAMESPACE=istio-system
for KIND in "${KINDS[@]}"; do
    kubectl --namespace $NAMESPACE --overwrite=true annotate $KIND $RELEASE meta.helm.sh/release-name=$RELEASE
    kubectl --namespace $NAMESPACE --overwrite=true annotate $KIND $RELEASE meta.helm.sh/release-namespace=$NAMESPACE
    kubectl --namespace $NAMESPACE --overwrite=true label $KIND $RELEASE app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=Helm
done

You may ignore errors about resources not being found.